Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ailing Manuel Quezon (he has tuberculosis), President since 1935, did most of his campaigning from bed. He showed himself in his sleek car, behind a motorcycle escort, only when alarmists shouted that he was dying. In his Malacanan Palace, changing from one bright-colored dressing gown to another, the 63-year-old President played bridge, ran off movies for his friends, with his thin fingers deftly manipulated the wires that control Philippine politics...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...
...exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts, dealers would not promise deliveries, and in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard was pleading in vain for priorities for farm machinery...
...A.F.C. is virtually a huge one-way airline. Eastward to Britain each month fly fleets of sleek Lockheed Hudsons, big Boeing Flying Fortresses, plus some Consolidated Liberators (6-24) and a few Catalinas (PB-Y). They fly without the amenities of commercial airlines, part of the way without radio beams, with minimum equipment. The planes are built, not for transatlantic cruising, but for bombing flights...
...This sleek plum came with the successful sale of $1,500,000,000 in 2½% Treasury bonds, biggest new money offering since World War I's Liberty Loan drives. Like all Government issues, the new bonds were offered at 100. But the issue's high yield and the shortage of other gilt-edged offerings pushed the bonds 3⅜ points higher within an hour after formal offering. Even when the free riders (persons buying only for quick profit) unloaded, the bonds held firm, dipped only 5/6 point...