Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...
Like all Trollope's best novels, Popenjoy exists both in and between the lines; like the age in which it was written, there is a smooth, romantic surface on which the most innocent girl may skate without danger, and, just below, the murky waters of worldliness...
...Fingerprints are sometimes temporarily obliterated, even without surgery: e.g., the fingertips of a bricklayer's left hand are usually smooth as glass...
Expertly appraising this booming market, France's smooth, slick ex-Premier and Finance Minister Reynaud announced that he was going to write his memoirs, refused to reveal what would be in them, put the unwritten opus up for auction...
Despite the smooth clicking of his settlement mill, Bob Hinckley expects to speed up OCS still more. If Japan quits soon the rate will have to reach $4 billion a month; if V-J day does not come for a year, only $3 billion. Both of these settlement goals are so close in sight that Bob Hinckley considers the hardest part of his job done...