Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More active than ever at 75,-Composer Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky works in intermittent bursts of energy in a soundproofed studio built into his Hollywood house. A neat and meticulous man, Stravinsky until recently liked to stand on his head and do morning calisthenics to keep in trim. With the aid of his second wife Vera, he watches his health with hypochondriacal care. After a glass of French wine he is likely to call, "Quick, Verochka, the proteins." His wife responds by bringing him crackers and cheese. Although he is deeply religious, Stravinsky seldom goes to the Russian Orthodox Church, once...
When will inflationary pressures ease? Reserve's Martin did not give an opinion, but both Budget Director Percival Brundage and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey testified that Government spending, a prime inflationary factor, is on the increase, largely for defense. The new spending will trim the fiscal 1957 budget surplus to $1.2 billion instead of the predicted $1.7 billion. Next twelvemonth the Government may spend even more, possibly as much as $1.5 billion more than the estimated $71.8 billion budget. What all this means is that despite pleas from every quarter the U.S. cannot even consider a tax cut this...
Since the Air Force has been ordered to trim its expenditures without reducing its force levels, it looks as if the Air Force will have to stretch out its programs even though it contends this will cost more in the long...
Though the counterattack had regained a lot of lost ground, the Battle of the Budget was still undecided-as the House Appropriations Committee made plain by voting a $2.5 billion slash in defense funds. It was still likely that Congress would trim Ike's $3.8 billion foreign-aid program to $3.4 billion or so, and he would have to keep fighting if he wanted to save such embattled programs as federal aid for school construction. But on one point there was no doubt: the President had, at long last, won the initiative...
...five-year-old, middle-income suburb of Ruskin Heights on the southeast edge of the city, few of the trim houses (average price $12,000) boasted cellars. Worried parents herded children toward the nearest neighbor with a basement, and as many as 40 people huddled together in these rare dugouts. Not everyone heard the warnings, and not everyone who heard heeded them. By 7 p.m., when the twister swirled over the state line with a roar like a highballing freight train, the 16-store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles...