Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Office Building gymnasium, Maine's 60-year-old Republican Owen Brewster and Louisiana's 56-year-old Democrat Allen Ellender struck a pose for a traditional springtime picture: statesmen keeping in trim for the cruel tussle with their responsibilities. Ellender, a statesman in the Huey Long tradition, recalled that he had posed for the same kind of picture another spring with Henry Agard Wallace, sighed wistfully: "I should have knocked Wallace's block off when I had the chance...
Personal Traits. A big (6 ft. 3 in., 215 lbs.), trim hulk of a man with a huge head (size 7⅞ hat) and thinning red-blond hair, he swears rarely, smokes not at all, limits his drinking to two Scotches (neat). He wears conservative ties and double-breasted suits, which he buys off the rack at St. Paul's Maurice L. Rothschild & Co. He is equally at home with bankers and ditchdiggers. He is formal in his professional relationships, always keeps his coat on whatever the temperature, looks disapprovingly on those of his associates who wear flashy sports...
...Pancia." Toscanini himself is still in fighting trim. He is slightly heavier than he once was, but likes to point to his midriff and say, "Look, no pancia.'" He can still bound up stairs two at a time, although he seldom does because, he says, people think it's undignified. Often before rehearsals he jumps up on an office couch, feet together, to test his legs. Before a recent performance, he jumped up & down trying to reach the ceiling, crying, "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year...
Shot--Won by Tootell (H); 2, Trim (H). Distance: 48 feet, 3 1/4 inches. ble (H); 3, Gallogly (HC); 4, Felton
...plant's trim and final assembly department, one morning, a notice appeared on the bulletin board: "All Communists must be out of this department by 11:30 a.m. The Committee." At 11:30, the suspected workmen were still there. They were booted out. Next day, they were booted out again. When they came back again, the department struck. The company closed the entire plant...