Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the President's speech, in a slick little four-way play, a rigid export control was slapped down on Philippine trade. The President signed an act curbing Japanese access to Philippine raw materials. By prearrangement President Manuel Quezon immediately signed a proclamation implementing the new license system. Then High Commissioner Francis Bowes Sayre, almost in the same breath, announced that the act was in effect at once under his supervision...
...front, two games ahead of the Brooklyn Dodgers and 13 ahead of the World Champion Cincinnati Reds, the Cardinals had set the league's high winning streak, eleven games in a row. They led the league in batting (.290), fielding (.981). They looked so slick that Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle changed his pre-season odds, made the Cards favorites to win the National League pennant this year...
...likes to cluck about the purity of the chicks in his A.F. of L. brood, came nary a cluck last week. The Federal Government had stalked into his yard, stalked off again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One was tough, slick George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president and member of Mr. Green's executive council. The other was a onetime Chicago pimp-200-lb., frog-faced William ("Willie") Bioff. The charge against them: extortion...
...Harvard's slick-skimming varsity crew: the Charles River Regatta, last sprint race of the Eastern college rowing season; defeating Princeton, Cornell and Syracuse over a 1¾-mile course; on Boston's Charles River. Only undefeated varsity crew in the East, Harvard is favored to win the four-mile Harvard-Yale boat race at New London next fortnight...
Since your columns seem to be open to the highest bidder, I enclose a check for one dollar to pay for this statement, --that the slick defeatism of Lawrence Dennis is based squarely on his belief that a Nazi type fascism in America is not worth opposing--is, in fact, desirable. The rest of the argument easily follows from that. J.K. Fairbank '29 Faculty Instructor in History