Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Encouraging her husband to work on the lawn (and, incidentally, trim off his extra poundage), Bess bought a new power mower. Every time she asked him to use it, Harry would grunt his agreement, do nothing. Bess kept nagging. One Sunday morning she was putting the breakfast dishes away, when she heard the whir of the mower. Harry Truman was mowing the grass-and waving happily at church-going friends...
...Greeks." The master of this seagoing empire is a hawk-nosed, trim (5 ft. 7½ in., 155 Ibs.) man with glossy, grey-flecked black hair and glittering brown eyes that betray an acquisitive, competitive, imaginative mind. The secret of his success is hard work, nerve, intelligence and, say his friends, over and over again, "the ability to see into the future...
...trim, worn turf of the center court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Philadelphia's handsome, aging (32) Vic Seixas (rhymes with gracious) blew a handsome lead. For most of five sets the crowd got some thrilling tennis. Then Seixas' styleless but often effective game came to pieces in the face of a couple of questionable calls. Glaring at the linesmen got him nowhere. "Get on with it!" called an irritated fan, but Seixas was through. Deft and deadly, Australia's young (21) Ken Rosewall ran out the match...
...business woman who rides subways five days a week said: "We'd love dark cottons for summer-no white trim to get dirty long before the dress." Another pleaded for a "good girdle to work in, not requiring stockings." They suggested "stores arranged so that all coats are on one floor, same for dresses and suits. It's a nuisance running from one price-range department to another-always have a feeling you haven't seen everything...
Constructing a modern hospital with unskilled labor was almost as grueling as studying medicine, took nearly two years. But last week, with no ceremonies or speeches, the trim little Albert Schweitzer Hospital opened its doors and went to work. It has 50 beds, three air-conditioned operating rooms and an "emergency entrance" designed with an eye to the fact that the only ambulance available to most of the region's poor is the Haitian burro. Water and outdoor cooking facilities are provided for outpatients coming down from the hills. Present staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician...