Word: trim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trim, soft-spoken Hansen, gazing intently from behind rimless glasses, said he would not consider eliminating from the paper's standard vocabulary the four-letter words and sexual allusions that have stirred the ire of two Cambridge mayors, the police, and Governor John Volpe...
...America. That would be General William Westmoreland, 53, U.S. commander in Viet Nam and the leading figure on this year's list of best-dressed men. Westmoreland was chosen, said the Fashion Foundation's Charles Richman, because "when you see a military man in a really trim uniform, a thrill goes through you-that's what uniforms are for." The general has yet to be told of his latest victory. "After all," Richman explained, "there...
...testified in extraordinarily grim detail at his trial, he did it with a souvenir bayonet that he kept hidden under his mattress. Laying it on a nearby chair one night, he called in his mother to trim his toenails. For no particular reason, he said, as she knelt to clip "I picked up the bayonet by the blade, and I swung at her. I tried to stop myself when the handle hit her on the back of her head. She fell forward on her hands and knees and screamed for Dad. As I started to run from the room...
...going to let anyone put anything else in this. All you want to do is add words, and I'm trying to cut words." The speech thereupon went off to the mimeograph machines and Johnson to White House Barber Steve Martini for a trim. Though many televiewers thought that Martini might have given the President a marcel as well, the difference in his appearance was because Johnson has been letting his hair grow longer, bringing out the silver in it, and has stopped using the hair oil that wags long referred to as "b'ar grease...
Rising Role. In his formidable task of trying to persuade businessmen to comply willingly with controls that many resent, "Sandy" Trowbridge will need all of his considerable charm. Athletically trim (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) and handsome as a cinema star, New Jersey-born Trowbridge graduated cum laude from Princeton ('51), won a Bronze Star as a Marine second lieutenant in Korea. A onetime assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (then a Congressman and later Commerce Under Secretary), Trowbridge spent eleven years in the oil industry, mostly in Cuba, El Salvador, the Philippines and Panama. He was president...