Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forthwith, she went off on a coast-to-coast tour. "The idea," said smooth, tough Post Managing Editor Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones, "was that she should talk to everybody she could. It was a tough assignment for a woman her age. . . . She has had to ride bad trains, stand in line for food, spend many hours at night talking to wives of soldiers and mothers who were working in war factories. . . . She did a swell...
Justly-famed 14 Plympton Street home of sprightly, ebullient Harvard CRIMSON was swathed in Darkness last week and in fact also last night, as smooth-chinned executives worked feverishly taking the wrape off a star pitcher imported from Sears Rocbuck. Guardied reports were issue at two-hour intervals by Armband Squibb, moulder of men and destinies...
...tamping: rolling the surface hard is not enough; the wet mix must be compacted from the bottom. This is done with the well-named "sheep's-foot" roller (see cut), whose hundreds of small steel projections pound down into the mixture. Once tamped hard, the surface is graded smooth, then protected against scuffing by a thin bituminous top coat...
...dust had settled, the men who had tried to be realists about the war Were unhorsed, while the so-called soap salesmen were in the saddle. Off went capable, Pulitzer Prizewinner Henry Fowles Pringle (OWI's No. 1 writer), 13 other top writers and publishers. In came smooth, dapper, onetime Columbia Broadcasting System vice president William Bennett Lewis (Assistant Director), smooth, dapper, onetime Coca-Cola admanager Price Gilbert (Acting Chief of Graphics), a beauteous bevy of other admen and promotion specialists...
...Minister of Government Miguel Aleman looks upon Maximino and Padilla as possible rivals for the Presidency in 1946. Smooth, quick-witted Miguel Aleman cleaned up the Axis spy ring in Mexico, ran the propaganda campaigns which helped swing public opinion behind Mexico's entrance into the war. He controls the inbred Government bureaucracy, is now mending fences for summer elections...