Word: slickness
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...well known that enthusiasts differ warmly as to what, exactly, a sports car, or even a compromise sports-type car, is. But they agree unanimously that it is something more than a slick body hung on a typical Detroit (or South Bend) chassis that "needs $150 worth of extra equipment to turn the front wheels...
...When the blow fell, the Post was ready with its biggest and blackest streamer. CONANT CONFIRMED BY VOTE OF ONLY 6 SENATORS, 4-2. "The behind the scenes maneuvering, with Senator Saltonstall making an obviously determined fight for immediate confirmation, was as slick as any veteran Capitol observers have witnessed for a long time. . . Saltonstall's face was flushed when he ended his appeal on behalf of Dr. Conant--and Harvard...
Shakespeare & Gangsters. As a result of such wild reporting in Britain's press many a Briton is led to believe that the U.S. is dominated by Senators Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran, and that it is a slick, grossly materialistic country populated by bathing beauties, crooners, gangsters and political strong-arm men. Americans have a stereotype of Britain too, says the Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, but it is usually a flattering picture of "Shakespeare, dignified gentlemen, and so on," while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters...
Kenyatta, handcuffed and shabby after ten weeks in jail, was on trial last week in the remote northern outpost of Kapenguria. The principal charge was "management of an unlawful society," but implicitly, Kenyatta was suspected of sowing the seeds of African Communism. His defending counsel was Britain's slick Denis Nowell Pritt, Queen's Counsel, the man who got Gerhart Eisler freed in England. Though he denies being a Communist Party member himself, Pritt can be relied upon to echo the familiar cries, including that of germ warfare in Korea...
Author Hawley, a businessman himself, got to know the ins & outs of corporate life in 25 years with Armstrong Cork Co. Born in South Dakota, he joined Armstrong in 1927 as an adman, worked up through sales and finance to become advertising director. A short-story writer for slick magazines on the side, Hawley quit Armstrong six months ago to write his first book. Some of his reviewers, he says, were baffled by Executive Suite: they were so accustomed to caricatured businessmen that they kept looking for the tongue in Hawley's cheek. Hawley is not discouraged...