Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerance (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.). In Clinton and the Law, over CBS, Edward R. Murrow's See It Now displayed for a nationwide TV audience this week some of the bad and a lot of the good face of Clinton: a stentorian basketball game in a sleek new gym, the nascent philosophy of young Football Captain Jerry Shattuck ("All through life you come up against things you don't like but have to accept"), a simple oration on tolerance by the Rev. Paul Turner. "The people of Clinton thought they learned something from their ordeal," said Narrator...
...Sixth Fleet was busy with a complex landing exercise in Suda Bay, Crete. It speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians did not interfere with the evacuation...
...speaker then discussed the presence of "mystery within reason," adding that "we must go over sleek certainties and recognize that the act of thinking is, in part, mystery...
...Smiling, sleek and self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands...
...appeared suddenly at the door, sleek and jolly, a friendly flabby hand extended, and announced that he represented a clothes manufacturer which was making a survey of college styles. We took the hand and then made our own survey of its bearer, who was wearing brown--from cordovan shoes to a brown print (very tasteful...