Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the border. The mud was ankle-deep along the roadside, and the heavy mist was raw and penetrating. The weather failed to daunt the 300-odd refugees gathered at the camp, and it equally failed to daunt the Vice President of the U.S. who stepped from the car, trim and neat in black shoes, black suit and black Homburg...
...door, his aides carrying wooden easels and maps and charts covered with plastic blankets. On hand for two of the secret meetings was Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light began to fade across the trim White House lawns outside, the inner core of the National Security Council went into a deep huddle around the President's desk...
...educated King Hussein, 21, is pro-British; its newly elected parliament is rabidly nationalist and leftist; its youthful, pro-Nasser army boss made a military pact with Egypt and Syria just before the invasion of Egypt. But the Arab Legion, now called the Jordanian army, is no longer the trim fighting force British commanders once made of it. Chaotic Jordan may turn out to be the next land fought over. Today, it is anybody's pigeon (except Britain...
FIRST NORTH-POLE FLIGHTS from Europe to Asia will start in February, cut 10,300-mile Stockholm-Tokyo hop to 8,000 miles, trim flying time from about 49 hours to 31 hours. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered polar route between-Copenhagen and California, will fly two Far East round trips weekly over pole, make refueling stop at Anchorage...
When Upton Sinclair was living in Mary McDowell's stockyards settlement house in Chicago and raking up the muck for his novel The Jungle, a trim little (5 ft. 4 in.) woman doctor named Alice Hamilton was living only five miles away in Hull House. Indiana-bred, raised in ease, and educated at Miss Porter's famed school at Farmington, Conn., Alice Hamilton was working at the turn of the century as a bacteriologist by day but did settlement work by night and on weekends. Thus she met countless victims of industrial hazards and eventually became the founder...