Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaux: Silliman Evans, now a Nashville publisher, James Allred, who became governor of Texas (1935-38), but most of the time she was too busy for the flapperish goings-on of the day. Old Ike Culp took to carrying a long-bladed, switchback knife in his pocket, ostensibly to pare his nails, but word got around the legislature that he intended to use it on any young man who attempted to get smart around Oveta...
Margarita is still trying to pare down his huge 135-man squad to a starting line-up and 33 other players. He himself admits that he "won't have any ideas about a team until Wednesday...
Practice sessions opened Monday, but Shepard has time until October 10, the date of the jayvees first contest, to pare down the squad and shape it into a coordinated unit...
...modern equipment. His 1,000 trucks, 350 tractors and 80 power shovels, etc., have a replacement value of $20 million. He kept a big staff of specialists and workers, including more than 100 engineers under Vice President and Right-Hand-Man Walter Scott; unlike many others he did not pare down to skeleton size between jobs. Result: he got many new ones because he was the only man fully equipped to take them on. He helped build highways in California and Kansas and the big dams through the Missouri Valley. His firm's working capital grew to more than...
...were either shifted or discharged. Only two of the office staff were left: Dave Sentner, who now will boss the bureau, and Bill Flythe. Newsmen wondered whether the shake-up might mean a change in Hearst policies. A likelier reason was that the ailing Hearst empire was starting to pare costs...