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Disaster struck in a finger snap. The sleek, shiny Constellation tumbled drunkenly across a swampy, weed-covered islet on an arm of the Fergus River not two miles from the airfield. The left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Death at Christmastide | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

That is show-window Spain-sleek, animated, and very, very expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Behind the Windbreaks | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...hardiest rivals were Little Pierre, a sleek Labrador also owned by Bakewell, an Eastern dog named Scoronine, and a picturesque Golden retriever with a storybook name-Stilrovin Nitro Express. Some of the others had lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: An Old Dog's Day | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Smoking, Imbibing of the pleasures barred by conventional training rules, and a year without Coach Ulen's fond tutelage proved too much for a nine-man Alumni swimming squad as they bowed Saturday night to a sleek Varsity outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Mermen Easily Overcome Grad Swimmers | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...auto he aptly describes as "racy and low, black and sleek." The irreverent description volunteered by a Bostonian on Tremont Street, however, was, "What the hell is that...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Horseless Carriages Back to Spew Flame on Carless Postwar World | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

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