Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Senate Banking and Currency committee last week, a trim, grey-haired woman slowly read this West Virginia coal miner's account of his fight with life...
...worth more than $10 million, Lloyd is a typical U.S. citizen. He works hard, rides a succession of hobbies (old cars, microscopy) with grim preoccupation, loves sports, and has been happily married to the same wife for 26 years-Mildred Davis, once his leading lady. He keeps himself trim at 56 by exercising, eschewing tobacco and drink...
Heavily muffled passengers in Santiago's trim blue-green tramcars kept their distance last week, averted their faces when a fellow rider coughed. Movies played to half-empty houses night after night. As the year's first snowfall melted on Santiago's streets, Chileans shivered in one of the worst grippe epidemics in their country's history...
Last week, to the delight of Joe DiMaggio and of U.S. baseball in general, the doctors gave him the green light; Joe was ready to take his turn at bat again. Outfielder DiMaggio, down to a lithe, trim 195, put on his uniform and went to the bench with the team. Exuberantly, he wrestled with Teammate Charlie Keller, clowned with Phil Rizzuto, scuffled with other teammates. Nobody had ever seen reserved, 34-year-old Joe act so coltish...
...Eleanor Shipley Duckett, 68, crisp, brisk author and scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...