Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning sun beat down as the trim platinum blonde swung purposefully down the front walk of a luxurious ranch home in California's Coachella Valley, and, amidst a nervous flurry of hired help, stepped into a waiting air-conditioned Oldsmobile. She wheeled the Olds out past Mexican gardeners grooming the ranch-house lawn, and on the open road quickly pushed up to 80 m.p.h. In five minutes she was at the aptly named Thermal airport, where a sleek Lockheed Lodestar sat warmed up and ready for flight. She fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later...
...rounded up the signatures for and filed his nominating petitions, even posted, two weeks before he left Danbury, plenty of Lane billboards. The candidate himself was in fine condition for the race: four months of work in the prison power plant had taken off 20 pounds, left him trim and fit at 180. He was as confident as ever. "I have built up a record," he said, "of working assiduously on behalf of my constituents. And I think no one can criticize my record as far as my service to the people of this district is concerned...
...Portland's first woman mayor, she brought to the office the same classically simple concept of her duties that had guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau...
Personality & Politics: Silver-haired, trim and ruddy, Finnegan is a light eater, disdains cigars, watches his blood pressure like a campaign manager watching a wavering delegate. No jolly backslapper or joke-smith, he has only an ordinary memory for names and faces, seldom relaxes ("The only time I ever knew him to relax," says Campaign Executive Director Hy Raskin, "was when he took off a weekend in Atlantic City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with...
...Turkey, where the voice of civil liberties is thready and thin these days (TIME, July 9), trim (at 71) Opposition Leader Ismet Inönü, head of the Republican People's Party, had trouble taking a foot-first dive at the resort island of Heybeli near Istanbul. His plunging technique was fine, but cops, who keep close track of Inönü soon moved in to break up the crowd of onlookers. The ludicrous pretext for their action: Turkey's longtime (1938-50) President Inönü and his fellow frolickers looked suspiciously like...