Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain. All sorts of Americans, Western conservatives and Eastern liberals, clean-cut Jaycees and long-haired factory workers, seemed to fall head over heels for the concept of Gary Hart. For a year he had been one more dark horse in a forgettable pack of dark horses, a sleek but uninspiring Senator from Colorado. His campaign of "new ideas" went nowhere. Walter Mondale, the shoo-in, treated him like an earnest graduate assistant...
...Pentagon touted the sleek, speedy M-1 Abrams tank as a revolutionary superweapon when it was put into production in November 1981. There was only one problem: the tank's engine, built by the Avco Corp.'s Lycoming division, had a tendency...
...evening when the sleek blue Alfa Romeo pulled up before the large two-story house at 20 Via Sud-africa in a prosperous section of Rome...
...mostly paternal wing. Arnie cannot keep faith with the past without summoning up its burdens. These arrive one day in the form of a familiar family hunting for a dream house along the gulf: Lex Graham, the ambitious colleague who undermined Arnie at the university; Lex's sleek wife, who is eager to resume the affair she and Arnie once conducted; and Lex's cherished daughter, a high school belle who has reached just the right age to have her head turned by Arnie's romanticism. Such sun-drenched perplexities are home ground for Author Spencer...
Silently drifting across the sky, it will resemble nothing so much as the imaginative creation of an inventive youngster with an Erector set. It will consist of sleek metal cylinders, winglike panels, sinewy aluminum beams and long, cranelike arms. But in the eyes of President Reagan, there is nothing really far out about the bizarre-looking object. If he has his way, it will be circling the earth by the early 1990s...