Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the 18th plan went through. In scope it was unprecedented. In operation it was smooth and apparently initially successful-a rare thing for the first job of such a complex kind. In the sky of Holland multicolored parachutes etched a pattern of future military history...
...last spring when his Washington superiors, after a checkup, temporarily stepped in to help. With invasion only a few weeks away, General Lee's organization had not yet ordered 214 items (adding up to some 300,000 units) for the invasion. That assist from Washington may have helped smooth the invasion, and General Lee's record...
Stepping delicately across the eggs they have laid, Holtz again proves himself one of the best yarn-spinners and smooth-delivery boys in the business. He unveils all the acts, barges in on most of them, joshes the down-fronters, throws birdshot at the producer. He smooths out his old jokes without a wrinkle, tosses in a few less fetching new ones, continues the long saga of his best pal and mealticket, Sam Lapidus...
Once the dollar-pound rate is stabilized, he would stabilize the other currencies of the world. This he did in two smooth sentences which declared the millennium: "The prerequisites for such stabilization are internal political stability, a constructive solution of the problem of trade barriers, a reasonable measure of economic well-being and the absence of inflation...
French Fried Potatoes. Most coaches were too busy training their freshmen fondlings to indulge in the old practice of crying into their beer. Their apple-cheeked youngsters actually looked pretty smooth in varsity uniforms, especially when braced here & there by veteran 4-Fers...