Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their mailboxes one day last week, 100,000 businessmen, labor leaders, governors, novelists and professors found free samples of The Reporter, a new, slick-paper fortnightly magazine of "facts and ideas." Heralded by newspaper ads, another 50,000 copies went on sale (at 25?) on newsstands across the U.S. With no other preliminary promotion, The Reporter hoped eventually to pick up 50,000 readers who would be attracted by its basic editorial proposition: "America as a nation [is] inseparably tied to the freedom and well-being of other nations...
Then the wind died. On the third day, the word spread that Slammin' Sam was hot. He got a 67, which moved him up to within one stroke of the lead. On the fourth and final day, a record gallery followed him from the first tee. On every slick green they waited for him to skid. But Sam putted like a master...
...Love. Test Pilot Yeager knew all this when he prepared to fly the Air Force's odd little Bell speedster. He took over the X-1 from a civilian test pilot, Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin, who had flown the ominous little ship at Mach .8 (eight-tenths of the speed of sound). Goodlin was offered a fat reward (a rumored $150,000) for flying it at full speed, but he did not like the terms. Another civilian pilot had a try at the X-1 and hastily bowed out. Then the Air Force took charge and gave...
...Manhattan last week, Pancho experimented with something new. He played tennis on the slick, wooden floor of the 7th Regiment Armory for the National Indoor Championship. Neither the strange surface nor the deceptive lighting unsettled him; he breezed easily through the early rounds. What annoyed him was the fact that he couldn't get enough sleep. "It isn't the tennis matches," he explained carefully, "just New York. It keeps me awake...
...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...