Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared little U.S. Senator filled the tank of his sleek, grey Cadillac and drove 1,000 miles to address the Legislature of his own State. Home to campaign-for 1946-was Mississippi's red-necktied Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who boasts, at 66, that ladies still find him fascinating ("I don't expect to reach my prime until...
...carpet spanned the sidewalk in front of London's Yugoslav Embassy. Sleek limousines nudged up to the curb through a cluttered street...
Despite the Rube Goldbergish sound of some of his gadgets, Tom Saffady has cashed in heavily on his tinkering. At 27, he is owner and manager of Detroit's Sav-Way Industries. Frequently, he puts in as many as 16 hours a day in his sleek, paneled office, with its private bar, or in his four plants, humming with war contracts. Net income of his company last year: $400,000. Last week he had something besides inventions up his sleeve. He was working on a plan to cut his 600-odd employes in on profits...
Gaston Henry-Haye, 54, is a sleek, well-nourished little diplomat who used to represent Vichyfrance in Washington. Fifteen months ago, when Vichy broke off relations with the U.S., M. Henry-Haye was tenderly interned (along with his pedigreed Dalmatian and his solicitous staff) in a $24-a-day suite at swank, luxurious Hotel Hershey, in Pennsylvania's pleasant Lebanon valley...
...rendezvous somewhere over Nazi Europe, the sleek Thunderbolts turned over their bomber-escort mission to other U.S. fighter planes and streaked for their British base. On the way they spotted a tempting enemy airfield, with planes lined up along the runway. It was too good to pass up. The flight leader, Major Walter Carl Beckham, 18-victory U.S. ace of the European Theater (TIME, Feb. 21), called four planes and roared down for a strafe...