Word: trig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College must give up in its efforts to help raise secondary school standards. Instead of the present recommended, but vague, three years of math which is suggested, the College might outline a course coverage they think worthwhile. For while three years in some schools might put the student through trig and advanced algebra, in many others it covers only geometry and second year algebra. The College might instruct alumni to speak to local schools, and write schools which have sent students here, advising strongly that the more math an applicant has studied the better will be his chances...
...with the room service, Armand decides to sell the hotel. But all is not lost, and in time he meets a trig, purposeful American girl named Evelyn. She takes over Armand's business affairs like a one-woman managerial revolution, but she also shows him what noisy music they can make together by staging a small riot in a restaurant and getting the duke thrown in jail. Since no one in his family has had this kind of fun since the French Revolution, Armand happily jettisons liberty, equality and fraternity for connubiality. U.S. girls are a trifle bossy...
...doctor reporting for duty at the federal hospital on the lower Mississippi was in a hurry, and he strode along the path by the levee paying no attention to the hazards. He brushed against a shower-soaked crepe myrtle, and, in an instant, his trig new Public Health Service uniform was drenched. Barely pausing, Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen loosed a stream of expletives that he had learned as a boy among the mule skinners in Missouri. A couple of patients told the others what they had heard. From that first moment, the patients concluded that Dr. Johansen...
...remarkable staying powers of a mild, methodical leather merchant and provincial politician from mid-France who, last February, was summoned from obscurity to accept the perishable honor of providing France with her 17th government since the Liberation. Antoine Pinay is a small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 lbs.), trig man who, in unguarded moments, resembles Charlie Butterworth with a mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum...
Booze & Benzedrine. Mike's own pain in the heart is Mollie, a trig little blonde with "small and perfect . . . breasts . . . out of a sweet period of Greek art." She lives among the "beach bums," the has-beens and would-be's of Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's "protege" in a sun-decked beach house on Cortez Beach ("better than Malibu"). Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like...