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Word: trimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus Nikita Khrushchev fired his secret police chief, one of the last and most bloodstained survivors of the Stalin tyranny-a shadowy, trim little man and a gumshoe general who won his highest promotions and decorations in the "Great Patriotic War" leading grisly campaigns not against the Germans but against his own Soviet people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dropping the Cop | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...unsuccessful bid for the heavyweight title, he knocked down Champion Rocky Marciano at an age when lesser fighters have long since gone into the bowling-alley business. On his ranch in Ramona, Calif. Moore keeps up a constant schedule of running, calisthenics and sparring to maintain fighting trim. Explains Archie: "I'm not a young colt any more. If I let go, it's a long way back; so I just stay ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triumph of the Relic | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Costlier Handouts? The vote may, as Benson devoutly hopes, provide a long-range step-down of subsidized prices toward market prices, may help trim the monstrous program that inflated USDA's current budget to $6.9 billion. But, in the short haul, Benson's economy-seeking victory could become the costliest cornucopia in the history of subsidies.* In recent years only a small proportion (12% in 1958) of corn farms qualified for high supports by staying inside the Government's acreage limits. Farmers who planted more fed it to livestock, sold it on the open market-or sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Corn Unlimited | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Silver Trophies. As Takeshi Usami left the house and entered his car, trim little Michiko Shoda watched his departure from her bedroom window. Near her was a glass case filled with wooden Kokeshi dolls and, in a row on top, six silver tennis trophies she had won. It was tennis that had brought her together with the crown prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Crown Prince & Commoner | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...midst of a recent fast-paced look at U.S. military installations in the Far East, the Army's trim, tough Chief of Staff, General Maxwell Taylor, found someone for tennis, relaxed knee by knee in Djakarta after some amiable sets with his Indonesian counterpart, Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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