Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white man. At any moment China might have had peace by abandoning him and joining the Japanese New Order in Asia. Yet China fought on. In return the Western democracies had helped China considerably, but first through witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan. The Open Door was closed now, perhaps forever. Britain and France had ceased to exist in the Chinese reckoning. There was talk of the U. S. Navy occupying the British base at Singapore to safeguard democratic interests in the Far East. But a cargo of San Francisco...
...Japanese policy to the cleaners without delay. In the most drastic shake-up in the history of Japan's diplomatic service he recalled 40 diplomats suspected of leaning toward the London-Washington Axis. Most experienced and important diplomat purged was Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi, who is tactful, smooth and inoffensive, but decidedly no ball of fire. By last week five men had respectfully declined the post of Ball-of-Fire to Washington. Reason: relations between Japan and the U. S. are fast getting no better...
...Japan, and 2) Japanese suspicion of Russia. Last week, coincidentally with the press campaign, Foreign Minister Matsuoka named a new Ambassador to Moscow: Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tate-kawa. A leader in the anti-British campaign since 1937, skillful, politically ambitious General Tatekawa remarked: "The British are a crafty lot, smooth-spoken but always with something up their sleeves. I can get along with the Russians better...
...vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string to gether 90 minutes of first-rate crooning by Crosby and Martin, lively trumpeting by famed one-armed Swingster Wingy Mannone, some casual, restful reading of Scenarist Dwight Taylor's smooth lines...
...moment it looked as if the miscellaneous college boys, with less than three weeks' team play behind them, might humble the mighty Packers, five-time professional champions and as smooth a machine as football has ever produced. But the next moment the boys from Green Bay (Wis.) began their famed shenanigans. Paced by Cecil Isbell, onetime star of Purdue, and Don Hutson, pass-catching nonpareil, they gave the All-Stars a lesson in air maneuvers. Before the final whistle, the professional champions had scored six touchdowns-five of them by dazzling 30-, 40-, 50-yard forward passes. Just...