Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even solider than the talk of Sir Winston's impending step down was the talk of who will replace him. The word has plainly gone out through Tory Party circles-undoubtedly from No. 10 Downing Street-that Anthony Eden is the man. To assure Eden's smooth succession to command and a chance to seek his own mandate from the electorate if he chooses, the time to make the change would be relatively soon, while the increasingly confident Tories are considering whether to call new national elections this fall. If Eden is to take over eventually, politicians-Politician...
Last week, as passengers by the thousands crowded the new streetcars to bounce on the spring-cushioned seats and enjoy the smooth, gliding ride, only a few oldtimers sighed for the cumbersome elegance of the tortugas in their heyday. Then the streetcars were used for fashionable funerals, and the wife of Dictator Porfirio Díaz had her own private streetcar, furnished with silk curtains, revolving osier seats, spittoons and magazine racks...
Private Schine (who accepted the rough and the smooth with good grace) suddenly found his privileges curtailed. The Army report made it clear that whole brigades of high Army brass had wasted a disturbing amount of time over Schine. And it had even more interesting personal facets...
Dawalibi, 50, an oyster-smooth politician who suggests a corpulent Fu Manchu, is a man of pronounced dislikes (among them: Jews, Britons, Americans). In World War II he worked in Berlin for a time with the pro-Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem. He professes not to fear Russia: "The Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic than a prey to world Jewry...
...into the earth's crust is unusual. Only rarely have oil companies, e.g., Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, drilled below 15,000 ft. But in the little town (pop. 1,800) of Wiggins, Miss., there was a well that oilmen wondered about for years. A hearty, smooth-jowled man named George F. Vasen drilled deeper and deeper until he reached 20,450 ft., the second deepest well through the crust on record.* Although there were no other wells near Wiggins, Wildcatter Vasen insisted that there was an immense "Atlantic Ocean of oil" below the town, a limitless black pool stretching...