Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooperation between air and land had never been so smooth for the Allies. Said Marshal Coningham to his flyers after the victory: "The capture of Tunis and Bizerte sets the seal on your past mastery and present dominance of African air. But of deeper significance and more lasting value is the record of intimate collaboration with land forces in their battle. You have been true comrades in arms...
that nice smooth back will have so many muscles that she will look like Jim Londos or the rear view of a General Grant...
...Noel Coward plays last week, with Coward starring in both of them. If the audiences hoped for something with the drama of Coward's cinema tribute to the Royal Navy, In Which We Serve (TIME, Dec. 28), they were disappointed. Present Laughter is another of Coward's smooth, neatly frappéed cocktails, and This Happy Breed is a wholesome and slightly doughy shepherd...
This group of international nudists included British aristocrats, "but it was by no means aristocratic: it was 'fashionable,' a very different thing. The gleaming red fingernails and smooth white flanks of the lady opposite you might indicate a present status, but they did not authenticate a past . . . the young man in the infinitesimal black trunks . . . came from, the deserts of Australia to make his way by love, love alone; there was no stability in all this. . . . Some of the most indisputable nitwits in the contemporary world . . . dwelt in Maxine's house, week in and week out, carrying...
Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes, smooth, compromising, politically wise, also from the South. His only liability: he was once a Catholic, though now a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church...