Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire raids, had to give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment in Europe...
...miles from the finish line. When she finally eased across the line, her winning time-48 hours, 16 min. -set a record for the 21-year-old Port Huron-to-Mackinac race. It was a repeat performance for the Blitzen, which won last year's race over smooth water...
...Meeting Place. Several miles from the compound was the meeting place of the Big Three. There, on the castle grounds the Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry...
...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...
Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...