Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week shrewd, smooth-spoken Mr. Johnston added to his stature. In an address in Manhattan entitled "The Road to Realism," Johnston summed up the fears and hopes of many a U.S. executive. Johnston's fear is that present emphasis on Federal power will lead the U.S. to totalitarianism. Said he: "Super-statism is not a bogey of the businessmen's imagination. It is the monster which has catapulted the world into war. . . . Unless we recognize it as a real danger, we shall lose by default...
Since Sept. 3, 1939, little Britons in pubs and big Britons in clubs have debated whether the whole German people are to blame for Nazi Germany and World War II, or whether only evil, powerful men and their dupes are responsible. Last week, in a House of Lords debate, smooth, grim Lord Vansittart restated his familiar view that all Germans are accomplices and that, whatever happens to them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue...
...expected, Dartmouth monopolized the selections. Captain Stan Skaug, smooth-working, often unnoticed Indian guard, received the only unanimous vote. Teammate Bob Myers, who scored 21 points against the Crimson for the Big Green at the Indoor Athletic Building, was named to one forward berth, with Penn's eagle-eyed Chink Crossin at the other...
...left side of the A team infield is manned by veterans: Jim Gallagher is at third, with Jay Gleason, utility infielder in 1942, at short Jack Forte, Freshman brother of the Crimson football captain, is the current occupant of the keystone sack. A smooth fielder the short stocky Yearling has a good arm. "Red" Wilcox, a pitcher last year, is now at first base...
Once there was a brand new 105M Howitzer, with a smooth hydropneumatic recoil and a lovely electric brake and a perfect panoramic sight. All the generals and all the men said, oh, what a nice new howitzer, it is just what we have needed, we are glad the government has sent...