Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masters of Politics. One man who could help the New Deal survive was smooth, shrewd Jimmy Byrnes, the best politician it has outside the President. As economic czar, Jimmy Byrnes's job was to iron out the bickerings in the war administration, to clean out the obvious trouble spots, to smooth the path for the difficult and unpopular steps that any war administration must take...
...Jimmy Byrnes, who combines his liberalism with hardheaded native conservatism and has friends on both sides of the political railroad tracks, had an unpublicized job that was even bigger. On the home front he was rapidly becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to compromise and persuade in Congress, to figure out where the Administration had got off track with public opinion. If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician...
...course, LIFE has an explanation for all this. It's the end of an era, the editors point out; this is the last chance we'll have to see goings-on with football herocs and smooth co-eds, the last time we'll be able to play around before going off to attend to the serious business of making...
...most intricate job of public relations in the Army's history paid dividends. Coverage of the African invasion was smooth, with all reporters pooling their efforts, moving their stories from North Africa to London (whence they are cabled to the U.S.) without delays, without repetition...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...