Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Operations (A-3), most important section of the staff war-wise, is bossed by another West Pointer, sleek-haired youngish Brigadier General Earl Naiden, 48, whose fellows account him one of the most knowledgeable officers of the service in tactics and strategy...
Last Time. To many an American who recalls the formidable adventures of German U-boat skippers like Von Nostitz, Janckendorf and Koenig, reports of abandoned survivors and gun-strafed life rafts were far cries from the heroic U-boat actions of the last war. Then the sleek, expertly manned underwater craft slipped boldly into shore waters, in less than six months of 1918 they sowed mines, sank six steamships and 31 other vessels. Then their commanding officers were fighting gentlemen who usually took excellent care of their prisoners and actually had fun matching wits with frantic U.S. harbor-defense units...
There is one Manhattan publishing house the less since a Federal jury found sleek, Italian-born Carlo M. Flumiani guilty on 12 charges of mail fraud last fortnight. This week Judge Simon H. Rifking sentenced him to 18 months in jail, a $2,500 fine. But nobody will miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...
...pilots were diving their airplanes onto the deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow, he couldn't quite work up the nerve. His muscles seemed paralyzed. Life, even...
...Huckins Yacht Corp. yards in Jacksonville, Fla., Huck went to work. He locked himself in his laboratory, neglected his family, cut his friends, put in 100 hours a week over a drawing board. Last July his PT-69, a neat, sleek boat which jumps from wave to wave like a rock skipping over the water, was ready for Navy tests. Last week the Navy showed that it shared some of Huck's confidence that he had built the fastest, smoothest torpedo boat in the world: it gave him a contract (about $1,000,000) to build eight of them...