Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Wei Li-huang has what Chinese call a lucky face: smooth features, no pocks or scars. Among generals, such a face is supposed to mean that its owner will not be defeated, killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. But last week, in his new job as Nationalist Army Chief in Manchuria, it looked as though General Wei's luck was fast running...
...sundown, in Colorado Springs last week, the watercolor copies within the museum lay smooth and undisturbed, looking as if some squatting Navajo had just pinched out a last blue border on the sand, and then suddenly and silently vanished...
Eliot's quintet fell victim to a burst of hot shooting by Dunster in the last few minutes of play, 46 to 42. Stretch Crichion of the Elephants rang up the top score of the evening with 14 points, but his one man attack wilted against Dunster's smooth team-work and the seesaw game, 22 to 22 at the half, dropped to the Funsters...
...Freshmen already have a 54-40 victory over Exeter, racked up last Wednesday, to their credit. The Crimson had depth, steadiness, and smooth floor work over the prep-schoolers, and had little trouble scoring a substantial lead in the first half, a lead which the reserves stretched into a runaway victory in the second canto...
With the third book, The Realist, laid in 1918, the moral breakdown is complete. Huguenau, the central character, is a deserter. Clever, self-confident, cocky, a smooth salesman, he finds himself in a town where the aging Major von Pasenow (the hero of The Romantic) is the town commandant and where Esch, spiritualized and suffering, and with vague Messianic visions, is the editor of a failing radical paper. Huguenau becomes friendly with Esch in order to denounce him to the commandant, organizes a company to buy the paper, and is unmasked as a deserter just as the revolution begins...