Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More successful Rolls owners are Steven B. Sharp '52 (lower picture) and his bother Rodman '51. Their sleek black 1930 convertible with red trimmings boasts chromium-plated cylinder walls, a silver-nicked radiator, an aluminum body, overhead values, an automatic lubrication system, two ignition systems, two carburetors, and a spare gas tank. A wheel can be changed in less than a minute. Its only failures, according to the Sharps, are "the lack of a built-in machine-gun turret and the inordinate amount of gas it consumes...
...resistance, U.S. engineers are busy with plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows of new F-80s and F-61s gleam in the sun, while some of the sleek jets whoosh overhead. In the makeshift hangars, mechanics work tirelessly to repair typhoon damages. American soldiers and airmen have begun to regain faith in themselves and in their mission...
Traffic was thick on Paris' imposing Champs Elysées. A sleek Cadillac bearing U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson swung around the Rond-Point, headed for the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay. Round the other side, headed in the opposite direction, sped a Citroën bearing French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The Frenchman's chauffeur slammed on his brakes as another Citroën, with Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak inside, cut across his bow. A stately Rolls-Royce carrying Britain's Ernest Bevin slid in behind Schuman...
...emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, accustomed over recent months to editorial broadsides in the Soviet press, became the target of a gossip item in Moscow's Literary Gazette. The paper reported that Tito was in the clutches of an alluring "American spy"-sleek, slinky-eyed Zinka Milanov, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera star and since 1947 the wife of Ljubomir Ilic, one of Tito's generals. Pooh-poohed Zinka from Belgrade: "It's just silly...