Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the cornfield constituency of self-styled "country boy" Alf Landon to the Capitol Hill offices of smooth politician Joe Martin, the anguished cry went up: "Power-mad bureaucrats." "Bossism." "No milk for Hottentots." All the threadbare, empty rhetoric, spouted in the name of the "American Way" by the same coterie who have, at the price of disunity, taken the public by its ears and dragged it away from the cesspool of a global war to get a whiff of the Administration's "sewer of bureaucracy." Visions of the 1944 election are crowding the nation's war and peace problems...
...them down. W. Atlee Burpee Co. had an Improved Super Snowball Cauliflower, a Tender Pod Bush Bean that would make a mummy drool: ". . . surpasses all others in quality, tenderness, succulence and flavor. . . . The pods are 4½ to 5 inches long, thick, round in cross section, smooth, deep dark green in color, curving slightly, with long and distinctively curved tips. . . ." Peter Henderson & Co. had a Coreless Carrot whose "beautiful appearance alone wins favor for it wherever grown. ... Its coreless, rich red-orange flesh possesses a sweet, melting tenderness that appeals even to those who otherwise are not fond of carrots...
There was much smoke but little fire last week as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from all sides on the fitness of tall, smooth, red-faced Edward Joseph Flynn, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to be Minister to Australia...
Joseph Edward Otis Jr. is president of Indiana's Dodge Manufacturing Corp., makers of thousands of small precision parts for ships and planes. Last week, while many another businessman fretted over the strange, uncomfortable new world in which he found himself, smooth-thinking Otis sat down and wrote these muscular, unmincing words to his stockholders...
They are now being replaced in a number of industries by made-to-measure ear mufflers of smooth plastic, put out by Manhattan's Maico, Inc., an adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves...