Word: trim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...optimum weight-was set. Each was given as many weeks as he had pounds to lose. If he makes his specified weight by that deadline, he is paid 1½ of his annual salary; the bonus will be renewed every year for as long as he stays in trim. Thus a $20,000-a-year man stands to gain $300 annually...
...flesh to stick to the old shirtdress. Steven Brody, one of the innovators of the Cadoro breastplate (see color pages), recalls with disdain an overendowed woman in a see-through blouse: "It was not appetizing. There she was, just bouncing along. Flippety flop." Designer Jon Haggins, himself a slim, trim 165 Ibs., adds that "our customer has to be between 19 and 35, with a firm body, not absolutely flat and not busty either...
Last weekend was club weekend at Princeton and an amazingly impressive group of girls from all over the Eastern seaboard were bussed in to trim the horns of the Princeton boys. But as clubbies and their dates splashed through the three inches of beer which accumulated on the basement floor of one of the clubs, few probably stopped to realize that Harvard's victory over the highly-touted Tiger lacrosse team Saturday was the third major upset of Princeton by the Crimson squad this year, all before Princeton crowds...
Strong stuff for a man who has an artificial leg and a heart condition, and who is not exactly in fighting trim at 55. But he meant it, and as a courtesy to the "social Neanderthals," he listed his office phone number, home address and the usual hour (8 p.m.) he could be found "on the darkened Fifth Street sidewalk at the side entrance to the Chronicle." No one showed...
They came in dusty pickup trucks and rattling secondhand cars. Old women in velveteen skirts and turquoise bracelets filed nervously past young men in tight Levi's, sunglasses and cowboy boots. Trim coeds talked with old men in shabby clothes and tall black felt hats. Judged by any criterion-age, dress or deportment-the student body that recently turned up for the opening of the Navaho Community College at Many Farms, Ariz., was as varied as could be found on any campus...