Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good time. No flaccid sissy, he hunted, golfed, flew, drove his cars faster than the English law or the winding English roads allowed. Sometimes he drank doubles. He knew how to use four-letter words, and how to use anger to dispel opposition. He enjoyed women and slick music, danced well, blithely played the piano and sang his own lusty versions of the season's tunes...
...Schuster ($2). A surgically garbed intruder goes gunning (successfully) for a Hollywood obstetrician in a hospital delivery room. Another obstetrician and a little detective named Daniel Webster follow a priceless lot of suspects from California to Manhattan, with more casualties and an unethical but astounding conclusion. Full of surprises, slick dialogue, strange people...
...Town "walked around the car as he would a horse, feeling its slick sides and the gleaming brass of the headlights." The salesman "stomped the cutout open, and they sat listening to the throaty roar of sound. 'How does she sound?' said the salesman. 'Hit sounds right powerful,' said Old Man Town...
Like a destroyer hunting subs, the House Naval Affairs Committee was busy last week sounding Navy contracts for traces of lurking profiteers. The committee tossed over some depth bombs, and the rising oil slick showed that at least one had found its mark: though the Government has taxed away most of the wartime profits of manufacturers, there is still lush money to be made in the shadowy, unproductive role of "war broker...
...years ago, wealthy Mr. (then Congressman) Dempsey ran for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico. Behind him was a record as one of the most effective, best-liked legislators the House had seen in a blue moon. But his opponent, Senator Dennis Chavez, had a slick political machine. Dempsey lost, took the interim Interior job. Now he wanted to go back to New Mexico and run for Governor...