Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press police for a solution. There were others. Month ago Lake Michigan's icy waters gave up a bloated, battered body. The man had been shot, beaten and tortured; his fingernails had been pried away. His skin had been stained dark, his hair dyed, his fingertips sandpapered smooth. The elaborate efforts to hide his identity were successful: the corpse is still nameless and unclaimed...
...varied distinctions as an out-of-the-ordinary businessman, Eric Johnston last week added another. The smooth, bright-faced president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce published his first book, America Unlimited (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50), with a first printing of 250,000 copies. In it, he expounds briskly and sometimes brilliantly the evangel of free competitive enterprise which he has preached up & down the U.S., South America and Britain...
...last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long known Manipur for the finest pheasant shooting east of Suez. Until last week, Manipur's tough little polo ponies, twelve...
...blasé Washington, OSRD is regarded almost with awe. Significantly, this is less because of its scientific accomplishments than because of its smooth operation. OSRD is one of the few executive agencies that in four turbulent years has had no internal quarrels, no tiffs with Congress, no reorganization; its original line-up of top men is still intact. Of course, OSRD, being virtually a military secret, is also virtually invisible. But it is not completely invisible; and much of the credit for its immunity from attack has been due to OSRD's able, self-effacing boss, Vannevar Bush...
...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...