Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost a friend when the U.S.S. Houston went down in the great naval battle of the Java Sea: the sleek 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was a favorite; on her he had traveled 25,445 miles, taken four voyages...
...winter of 1917 she was torpedoed 400 miles out of Brest by U-boat Commander Hans Rose, who hit her at 3,000 yards, the longest successful torpedo shot on record. The Navy, which does not believe in ill omens, will no doubt soon launch a sleek, new Jacob Jones III, and before the shakedown cruise is over the crew will call her "Jakie...
...both companies Panagra proved a smart investment. It throve despite jungles and mountains, and (until the Good Neighbor policy began hitting in high) a surplus of foreign competition. Business doubled in 1940, doubled again in 1941. Today Panagra owns 14 sleek Douglas transports, has over $7,500,000 in assets...
...fight between George's civilized inhibitions and his insane (but not ir rational) compulsion to find peace by killing Netta, Author Hamilton builds a cold, sleek story which readers will ap preciate in proportion to 1) their taste for horror, 2) their taste for psychiatry...
Probably the only new tires the U.S. would see in the next year or two would be on the sleek new cars of Latin tourists, inspecting the quaint, little-traveled byways...