Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall, trim Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor-eject of Burma, arrived in London impatient to dispel two nasty suspicions: 1) that many of the Burmese people had helped the enemy into their country; 2) that evacuating British forces had left Burmese earth unscorched. Said Old Harrovian Sir Reginald: "The Burmese with any stake in the country played the game by Great Britain. When the invasion began, the Japanese did not succeed in winning over a single Burman of any weight...
...Woman. In smart sets from Santa Barbara to Long Island, "Louie" Macy is popular. She radiates good spirits, talks well, laughs easily. At 36 she is trim as an athlete. She dresses with elegant plainness -sometimes in colors to match a ginger-brown French poodle which she leads on a pink patent-leather leash. Her dark hair falls in a long bob; her eyes are bright blue, a little gap between two front teeth emphasizes her firm chin and nose...
...kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...wear the mantle of Pershing in World War II landed in England last week and took over a new command: U.S. forces in the European theater. Whether trim, bald Major General Dwight David Eisenhower would indeed command the invasion when it came off, or whether he would later become chief of staff to a higher ranking officer, Army men cried "Amen" to his appointment...
...more than a month, at Nelson's invitation, trim, grey-headed Dr. Luther Gulick, Federal trouble shooter, had been peering into WPB's innards. Dr. Gulick has already made recommendations: 1) to clarify authorities, sometimes so fuzzy now that industry branch chiefs are not sure whom they can fire; 2) reorganize the Production Requirements Plan ("Purp"), which after July 1 will finally be charged with the monstrous job of controlling all critical materials, from primary producer to factory...