Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prematurely publicized Radford Plan of last year-both widely condemned in Britain on first hearing. Washington had plenty of notice about its ally's latest plans. Britain's Harold Macmillan told Dulles last December at a NATO meeting that the United Kingdom would have to trim its defense budget and worldwide military commitments. Defense Minister Duncan Sandys gave further details during his successful missile-shopping trip to Washington in February; Macmillan gave a full explanation to President Eisenhower during their Bermuda conference...
...sound thinker who takes balanced viewpoints, Engineer-Scientist Quarles as Air Force Secretary maintained deep interest and close touch with his first love-research-but never favored it unreasonably. Nor has he overfavored the Air Force itself.* Preparing a 1958 budget, Quarles helped trim preliminary requests totaling $23 billion down to $17.7 billion. Then he went up Capitol Hill to assure Congress calmly that, rather than ask for more, he felt $17.7 billion was sufficient to buy the kind of airpower the U.S. needs...
Fresh from a New Jersey village, the young Quaker girl seemed hopelessly out of place at the snobbish weekly. But from her very first day in 1895, the trim, bright-eyed mail clerk named Edna Woolman Martin somehow felt "a proprietary interest" in the affairs of Vogue as it chronicled the genteel caprices of New York society rounding out a comfortable century of progress and optimism...
...billion budget, which is, in many domestic respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made an unprecedented proposal: a resolution formally asking the President to tell them where to do the cutting...
...course, also knows what odds to expect on its president, who turns out to be the perfect risk. At 58, with a trim 175 Ibs. spread over his 5-ft.-10-in. frame. Shanks is lean and rosily healthy. As insurance pamphlets advise, he likes to get eight hours' rest most nights-10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He does an hour's calisthenics before eating a sensibly big breakfast. Trlis other meals are light; he tries to keep lunch within 300 calories and dinner within 700. He does not smoke, rarely drinks, and has few financial worries...