Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's task. But the Reconversion War was being fought on rigid lines. The Army, in effect, argued that production be kept up by stern talk, and by denying the implication of the victory headlines. WPBsters wanted to assure workers that the transition to peace would be smooth, to keep men at war work. On this line, Nelson and the Army were prepared to fight it out all summer...
...appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts for the Mid-Off school are placed all on a table. Sixteen of the largest women in nearby Brighton then sit upon the shirts until they are pressed into the fine smooth job which you all know so well. Then just before the shirts leave the plant some female flend etches on the collars of all the shirts--on the outside, of course, transcriptions which read something like this, "hc19876k2" or "GOT459z91--*lb." At the end of three or four washings...
...Japs who were on the rocks below the Marpi Point cliff. All together, they suddenly bowed to marines watching from the cliff. Then they stripped off their clothes and bathed in the sea. Thus refreshed, they put on new clothes and spread a huge Jap flag on a smooth rock. Then the leader distributed hand grenades. One by one, as the pins were pulled, the Japs blew their insides...
...P.A.C.'s convention headquarters were in two 19th-floor rooms of the Sherman Hotel, filled with red leather chairs and Renoir prints. Here P.A.C.'s assistant chairman, Calvin ("Beanie") Baldwin, and its research director, smooth, balding Economist J. Raymond Walsh, held sway, totting up the Wallace count, working on delegates, calling the printer for more placards. Across the hall was a small room, with the blinds half-drawn, where Sidney Hillman took catnaps between conferences...
...Fund, in effect, is merely a shock absorber. It can neither make rough roads smooth nor compensate for reckless driv ing. None of the delegates at Bretton Woods believed that it would solve the problem of getting payment for U.S. goods if the U.S. tries to export goods while it blocks imports by high tariffs. But believing that the roads are certain to be rough, the delegates felt there was all the more need for shock absorbers-to save the whole world from being jarred by every thank-you-ma'am that each nation hits...