Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been trying to get it in here for some time now that Weilepp is a married guy now. Several weeks ago we had all the details jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...
...Again. Don Nelson emerged from the White House with a smooth brow. Grinning broadly, he no longer spoke of resigning. The President had talked with enthusiasm, had smiled graciously, had given assurances that Don Nelson and WPB: 1) still have an important job of directing wartime production, 2) will some day have an even larger job in turning U.S. industry back to peacetime production...
...Army followed the Marines to Bougainville last week, seven days after the first landings. The commander and strength of the Army force were unannounced, but the bare, official accounts reflected smooth, effective coordination between the Army, the Marines and the seagoing Navy...
Tokyo, 3,380½ Miles Away. The characters are skillful percolations off men mentioned in Tregaskis' book-a clownish, kindly-hearted Brooklyn taxi driver (William Bendix), a smooth, hard sergeant (Lloyd Nolan), an ex-All-America chaplain (Preston Foster), a trigger-happy, brave child called Chicken (Richard Jaeckel). These men and others as simply characterized are put through 1) quiet days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling...
...ribbons, and the Air Medal (for five combat missions). But his anonymity was gone. When the War Department arranged a press conference, stenographers lined Pentagon Building corridors six deep to watch him walk by. They chattered and oh-ah'd: "He's marvelous . . . isn't he smooth...