Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citations from Luther. A trim, apple-cheeked young law student at Heidelberg 30 years ago, Red Hilde was first stained with the party dye when she met and married a fanatical Communist who was later killed by the Nazis. Red Hilde became a brandy-swigging, chain-smoking harpy and Germany's most dedicated fighter against family and religion. Appointed vice president of the Soviet zone Supreme Court, she presided over political-show trials. In three months of 1952 alone, she handed down two death sentences, eight terms of life imprisonment and 109 years at hard labor. In court...
Market women, hiking down out of the mountains with produce for Port-au-Prince one day last week, reached the way stop of Petionville to find a situation of astonishing, rapturous stupidity. There stood trucks, orange military buses and trim government Jeepsters, doors invitingly open, all offering free rides to the capital. No imbeciles, the women lowered from their heads baskets of pineapples and beans, loaded the stuff aboard the vehicles and climbed in, some for the first auto ride of their lives...
...Shot of Schnapps. Old timers could recall Hoppegarten in its heyday, the white grandstands looming above the green of the track, the white Rhineland gravel on the paths, the bright flags from all of Europe. Hulking Uhlans and tall, trim Hussars marched with their ladies between training ovals, stopped now and then for champagne or a quick shot of schnapps. Great horses from the royal Graditz stables raced against some of the finest thoroughbreds in the world in those good days before World...
...market. Where Slick had previously broken even and the Tigers were more than $1,000,000 (before taxes) in the black annually, the two started losing money. The combined loss was almost $2,000,000 for the first six months of 1954. Trying to cut costs, they had to trim 900 men off their 3,200-man payroll, and promptly ran head-on into termination claims adding up to as much as $6,000,000. When both the unions and the CAB refused to nullify the contracts, the two lines decided to call off the merger, thus get out from...
...colleagues struggle just as gamely, but their paths are more cluttered. The Tender Trap may well be one of the best-acted of all bad plays. Graham mugs and ingratiates simultaneously. Kim Hunter, playing a thirtyish career girl, adds a trim sophistication which balances Graham without neutralizing either role...