Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such Republican backers of world organization as Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton. Said Delegate-Senator Vandenberg last week: "This will not be the battle of the century." But he would oppose any clubbing of the Senate into approval. And last week when trim, grey Harold Burton delivered a scholarly, three-hour defense of San Francisco, only three Senators were present to hear...
...barracks sally-ports, sudden as buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...
...India's fashionable Simla last week, Burma's governor, trim, mustachioed Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, was waiting to re-enter Rangoon. Well might he recall the words he had uttered in October 1943, after his expulsion from Burma: "Neither our word nor our intentions are trusted in that part of the globe. . . . We have fed such countries as Burma on political formulae until they are sick at the very sight and sound of a formula, which has come, as far as my experience shows, to be looked upon as a very British means of avoiding a definite course...
...Dutch, whose prewar merchant fleet was the world's seventh largest (1,532 ships, 2,972,871 tons), had shown their usual perspicacity by placing their orders early. During the war the Dutch have lost 50% of their trim ships, including the crack liners Statendam, Veendam. New ships will be needed to haul reconstruction materials and rawmaterials to Holland. In the teeming Netherlands East Indies the only means of communications between the many islands is by coastal steamer...
...Supreme Headquarters, Ike's Chief of Staff, trim, brilliant Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, summed up the Ruhr victory: "The largest double envelopment in military history...