Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceiling of $18 a 100 lbs. on cattle. The feeders were saving expensive feed by selling their stock, and in their hurry to get out from under, they were shipping animals that averaged 40 to 65 lbs. less than 1944's marketing weights. Should the feed-lot operators trim their herds too sharply, the gristle-tough outlook would be for something close to a meat famine this summer...
...others, the anxiety would concern matters less subtle and trivial. The picture of a trim, slim brunette with a baby in her arms appeared on the front pages of Miami newspapers not long ago. Ada Forren, the girl in the picture, is 18. She had married her Navy husband just four months before the baby was born; she had no assurance that she would ever see him again. In a childish fit of despair, Ada had given her baby away for adoption. Now she had to go to court to get the baby back. She did. But how would...
...mine, and I've been cutting his hair ever since. The P.M., you know, is an old bachelor, without any wife to check him up, so I always call his office about once every three weeks and remind him that it's about time for a trim. Shampoo? With that little fringe...
...calls for a small force to police the U.S. share of occupied Germany, moving most of the U.S. forces now fighting in Europe to the Pacific. They would probably be staged through the U.S. ( the most direct route) in time to arrive at their new front in fighting trim...
They knew, for example, that the trim little schoolhouse at Westkapelle was doomed. Its floor had become a black mire. Its desks were coated with oil and refuse left by the tide. Soon the whole building would crumble into the sea. But on its blackboard, beyond the water's reach, they had chalked three words: Wij zijn bevrijd-"We are liberated...