Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat appraised Lie as "a man with guts; no political or other culture; not the ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary General of the League of Nations, might mark the difference between UNO and the League...
Harry Truman had been warned that appointment of an oilman as civilian head of the Navy would raise eyebrows and oratory in the Senate. But the President had apparently decided to bull it through. (One reported deal to smooth the way: transfer all Navy oil reserves to the Interior Department...
...Truman Administration. An affable, self-deprecating man, he is part court jester, part speech writer, part handy man. On the side, he is also vice president in charge of public relations for the Home Insurance Co. and a director of 22 corporations, some of them controlled by smooth, smart financier Victor Emanuel. He said he would probably have to give up most of these private jobs...
Ahead, as far as the eye could see, the black pavement of Fifth Avenue lay smooth and empty between the towers of Manhattan. Millions of people, jammed along the sidewalks, stood waiting to welcome the 82nd Airborne Division. In 42 side streets below massive, grey Washington Arch, 13,000 soldiers waited...
...Emperor' Hiromichi (meaning Way of the Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...