Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arctic Revolution. The Hans Hedtoft, a diesel-powered motorship, went down the ways of Denmark's Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim. The 2,857-ton freighter had been specially designed for the Danish government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran...
...week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 35, was a trim, burr-voiced delight...
...other departments of Major National Security, the budgetmakers raise atomic energy funds a lean 4% to $2.8 billion, trim strategic stockpiling funds, slice foreign military aid a surprising 20% to $1.8 billion...
...designs of Audry Cruddas, for one thing, are nothing if not stylish. Her costumes (lots of trim uniforms) are more or less Edwardian, which is the fashionable period nowadays for doing sixteenth century drama. Her sets are attractively simple: the throne room is two chairs and a scarlet canopy against a black background, and the queen's bedroom is an ottoman and a great scarlet-canopied bed against the all-prevasive black. The scenes of hurried conspiracy after the Play Scene are done mostly on a bare, black stage swept with light across the front, as if to show that...
Other railroads were also busy trying to trim losses...