Word: trim
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...secret: alcohol. "I enjoy drinking," says Okamura, who still has the posture of the middle school principal he once was. "Shochu, whatever. If it's alcoholic, I'll drink it." It appears to be working: At 90, the bantam-sized Okamura is still fit for his age and trim everywhere but in the ear lobes. While the other residents in the Yairo-en Special Nursing Home's gleaming rec room watch high-school baseball on TV, Okamura passes the time playing piano, pausing only to pose for a photo. "I look good," he says. "I feel good. It's great...
...rally, netting his first goal of the day in transition off a quick pass from Cohen to make the score 8-3 with 11:51 remaining in the game. A faceoff win by Flood quickly led to freshman attackman Jason Duboe netting his 11th goal of the season to trim the deficit to four.Four minutes later, the Crimson struck again in rapid succession. After Cohen netted his second goal of the day with 6:43 remaining, Flood won the faceoff, and a minute later Calvert put in his second of the day.Suddenly, Harvard was down just three...
...early-'70s wave of porno features. Studios quickly became reluctant to release X-rated films, and an important avenue for frank artistic initiative was closed off. The director was still "free to make any movie he wants to make"; but now his studio contract obliged him to trim an X down to an R. Freedom of expression was now the right to make any movie that, in the eyes of the ratings board, a parent could take his kids...
Saturday night in Baghdad, and Heidi, the barmaid at the Baghdad Country Club, is worried about the beer. On a busy night, she might serve 800 cold ones to the diplomats, security guards and construction workers who frequent the Country Club, a white cinder-block house with blue trim on a residential street in the Green Zone. The BCC, as it's known, gets its alcohol from suppliers outside the walls, but insurgents are targeting the crossings on either side of the Tigris River. On this Saturday, a truck bomb on a bridge has locked up traffic on the west...
Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law David B. Wilkins ’77 hosted the event at his Cambridge home, a forest-green Victorian with orange trim tucked at the bottom of a hill near Brattle Street...