Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek sister moved in through the icy, spume-laced seas to her side. It was a deadly task. Both vessels were rolling wildly and constantly awash, and their hulls were as bare of hand holds as two whale's backs. A rubber boat set out from the Cochino, lost a man in the enormous waves...
After weeks of lurching about and tooting its horn in alarm, Harry Flood Byrd's sleek, well-oiled political machine rolled to victory last week in Virginia...
Four Ghosts. The Comet was designed and built in secrecy; De Havilland has not yet released many of its details. It is about as big as a DC-6, with its four Rolls-Royce Ghost jet engines looking sleek and slim on its moderately swept-back wings. Its claimed cruising speed is 500 m.p.h. at 35-40,000 feet. At this speed and altitude, each Ghost develops thrust equivalent to 10,500 h.p. The Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp reciprocating engines that power the DC-6 develop only about 2,100 h.p. at full throttle...
...once-plump Woolworth heiress was down to an emaciated 88 Ibs. and desperately needed her son Lance, 13, with her until the end of the summer. Babs's friends in Venice, on the other hand, said that she was well enough to swim at Lido Beach in a sleek black suit. Lance's father, Court Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara's second husband), who wants his son back in August, refused to comment. Wise by now in the ways of the law, all he would say was: "I am delighted to hear that she's well...
Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...