Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government has leaned over backward to maintain friendly relations with Germany: last week it suppressed ten newspapers which had printed documented accounts of German concentration-camp brutalities in Norway. An Army of 30 highly trained divisions, under General Ivar Holmquist, is tough and ready after winter exercises. The trim little Swedish Navy under Vice Admiral Fabian Tamm was on the alert. But the suspense was painful...
...lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges. Behind them 200 newspapermen, using Darlan police guards as copy boys, waited to send the story of France's shame to the world's far corners...
...nearly equal are Allied & Axis Navies, the weight of that fleet-the battleships Richelieu, Dunkerque, Strasbourg, Provence, the 14 French cruisers, 42 destroyers, 59 submarines-will tip the balance of world sea power. Last week the German press declared that France's greatest ships were in battle trim, "ready for any eventuality...
Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...
...Tuesday by President Comacho of Mexico, the observatory boasts a telescope that was constructed under the direction of members of the department. It was intended to be an exact twin of an instrument already installed here, but the builders over-estimated the amount that would be required to trim the edges of the lends, and so unintentionally produced what has been long hailed as the largest telescope of its kind in the world...