Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from strengthening U.S. diplomacy, the Air Forces' trigger-happiness was likely to embarrass it. State would have to be doubly careful now in approving the flight. What the U.S. clearly needed was a machinery for deciding upon a foreign policy and executing it-a well-oiled, smooth-running machine in which no foreign ear could hear the gears clashing...
...propelled P-80, for instance, was designed as a fighter. But when its guns were first fired at 600 m.p.h., their bullets and gas blasts interrupted the smooth flow of air over the polished skin. The dread sound wave snapped its teeth, and the P-80 disintegrated...
...after a hard Christmas, because he almost worked himself to death during the war. The day-to-day performance of the men who run the Ukraine seemed to me about as good as any I've ever seen. . . . They would measure up pretty well, for example, beside such smooth-running outfits as the U.S. Forest Service or the Republican machine in Westchester County...
Yesterday's Varsity practice found Coach James MacDonald putting his charges through an extended scrimmage in preparation for Saturday's game with Princeton. Mac put special emphasis on accurate passing and good halfback support in an effort to smooth out the spots where the team looked ragged last Saturday...
...episode, the production will have to rest on the solid foundation of the play and on the spectacularly colorful settings and costumes by David Ffolkes, which make every seene a rich and interesting portrait. If Miss Webster does make use of four weeks in Boston to prune and smooth, American Repertory will be in a strong staring position for the forthcoming sweepstakes...