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Marauder pilots swept in day after day, returned with astonishingly low losses. The operation was all so brisk, business like and efficient that it was hard to remember that the sleek, cigar-bodied B-26 had come close to being washed up as an unruly failure, not many months...
...England recently some U.S. pilots, inordinately proud of their hot sweetheart, were enlarging on this theme while two B-26's planed in, landed and taxied back to the line. One airman gazed fondly at the sleek Widow-Maker. "Yep," he said, "it's a man's airplane...
Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army...
...TIME, June 19, 1939) in North Carolina's Craggy Mountains, is now ten years old. Of its founders there remained on the spot last week only a dog, a housekeeper, a librarian and three professors. But they, their associates and 57 students (now mostly girls) buzzing about the sleek, modernistic study hall and the small outlying dormitories were continuing to make Black Mountain one of the most unorthodox and interesting of U.S. educational institutions...
...Slick, sleek Joe Guffey, in a press release, asserted that the Senate vote rejecting the Administration soldier-vote bill (TIME, Dec. 13) had been the work of "a combination of Northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and of Southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd." He called this an "unpatriotic and unholy alliance...