Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yonkers for the big race went a surprising number of horsemen, breeders, farmers, from all over the nation. They took a homey atmosphere to slick Empire...
Almost on the first clear day out of port, a Liberator had found three U-boats stalking the convoy preparing for attack. The big plane dropped its depth bombs: one submarine was considered sunk. Surface craft attacked two more, depth-charged them. From one a huge oil slick bubbled to the surface: the U-boat was seen no more...
...citizens got Ration Book No. 3 by simply dipping into the mailbox. For Ration Books 1 & 2 they had had to wait in line and fill out questionnaires. The slick new red-tape-slashing scheme had gotten its inventor, Philip Holzer, 24-year-old OPA clerk (TIME, May 3) a temporary draft deferment and had given the U.S. Post Office its biggest delivery...
...Adams' move was different: his stock is selling near its high for the year, his sales running 20% above last year. And his motivation was right in line with his executive background, first as a key man in the smart, slick advertising firm of Benton & Bowles and then as executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet...
...They built a modern palace on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, bought show places at Bar Harbor and Palm Beach, a house in London and a shooting box in Sussex. There were five children. Their 18-year-old daughter Nancy eloped last year with Alfred de Marigny, a slick weekend guest. Sir Harry did not approve...