Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capitulation and Risk. Roosevelt, Churchill, Inönü talked for three days. With them were Menemencioglu and Russia's smart, smooth Ambassador to Ankara Sergei Vinogradov. Afterward, an ambiguous, labored communiqué could not conceal that: 1) Turkey, risking war, had granted everything short of war; 2) the understanding at Cairo may have lessened but had not erased the differences between the Turks and Russians. The communiqué mentioned "closest unity" between Turkey, the U.S. and Britain. It referred to the "identity of interests and views of the great American and British democracies with those of the Soviet...
...biggest mistake: opposition to the Controlled Materials Plan drawn up by WPB's other vice chairman, Ferdinand Eberstadt, as the only sure way to keep production flowing on a smooth, sound basis. This brought on the newspaper-famed Wilson-Eberstadt fight (TIME, March 1). Two more dissimilar men than Charlie Wilson and Ferd Eberstadt could hardly have been brought face to face: Wilson, the ambitious doer, the man who came up from scratch; Eberstadt, the polished investment banker, Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained, the man who did with pencil & paper what Charlie Wilson was used to doing with...
Modified to pack a 75-mm., the B-25 has a sinister look. There is no plexiglass in the nose, only a smooth metal face with one angry, flaring nostril, from which the gun muzzle protrudes. The gun is mounted low on the left, fired by the pilot at the right. It is fixed, aimed by pointing the plane. The 20-lb. shells are loaded manually...
...upset him at all. But they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long last by the Senate, Planeman Tufts is saved only by Miss de Havilland's impetuous glorification, before the Committee, of Men Who Get Things Done. Amidst the dramatic moments is a lighter passage which depicts...
...luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier. Paul Stewart, rescued from expert portrayals of smooth crooks, makes a small part as a newshawk the best thing in Government Girl...