Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the fighting forebears of Brian Boroihme put to sea in currachs against Britain a millennium and a half ago has Ireland had a navy of any account. Until one day this winter, when the flag of Eire broke out at the stern of the trim, new, 50-knot torpedo boat, M1, independent Eire had no Navy at all. Even then, Eire got this ship from the British, the Government having ordered six such craft from British shipbuilders for coast-watching and general marine service...
...right direction; you stumble. Your hand reaches out to steady yourself, and finds another hand in it. Funny, you never think to ask Why. She is there, and that's all, skating with you. She has brown hair tied back with a ribbon and a trim green dress. You are both talking at once; you have so much to say. Just as though you have known each other for years...
...Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with...
Born in South Boston in 1866, Keezer came to the Square after a youth spent at paper-peddling and in the prize ring. He fought professionally at 105 pounds and looks in trim even today. Growing up with Cambridge, he watched other tailors--Durant, Brown, Snow and Pinkos--come and go. By the time he had a turnover of two thousand suits a year, he had established himself in "big business." The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce elected him to membership. With his accumulated capital he built the first stores in North Cambridge, and its first theatre. Then he satisfied...
...Trim little countries are Norway, Sweden, Denmark. And trimmed in a horrifyingly perfect balance are the alternate disasters that await them no matter which side they turn toward in World War II-or, very possibly, even if they just keep on looking dead ahead toward neutrality...