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Word: sleekly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Honor Speaks | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...carpet spanned the sidewalk in front of London's Yugoslav Embassy. Sleek limousines nudged up to the curb through a cluttered street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King Takes a Wife | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Young Tom Saffady | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Diplomatic Exchange | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Take the Boys Home . . . | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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