Word: smoothest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tories had something, and they knew it. Their tails were up, and they were romping all around the pasture. They had the bulk of Britain's private wealth. They controlled virtually all civilian war industries and Government boards. They had the ablest men in public life, ran the smoothest party organization. Now Winston Churchill could take a hero's modest bow for the victories in North Africa, and his Party shared the political rewards...
...bring inflation under control. That still has to be done by the organization created to carry out the orders. To administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale good fellow who was one of the smoothest politicians on Capitol Hill before he moved up to the Supreme Court last year. Byrnes is a middle-of-the-roader who can get along with men of all beliefs; he knows when to hold his tongue; he is an expert at finding the common denominator...
Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Smoothest dance version, best vocal, of the rollingly rhythmic song now at the top in sheet-music sales...
...talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...
...drawing board. Last July his PT-69, a neat, sleek boat which jumps from wave to wave like a rock skipping over the water, was ready for Navy tests. Last week the Navy showed that it shared some of Huck's confidence that he had built the fastest, smoothest torpedo boat in the world: it gave him a contract (about $1,000,000) to build eight of them as a starter...