Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil's coming men is Juscelino Kubitschek. 52, the trim, dynamic son of German-Polish immigrants who is governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais (pop. 8,000,000). When high-spirited Juscelino ran for office three years ago, he wooed the isolated backland voters with hillbilly songs (How can a fish live out of water? How can I live without you?) and dazzling promises of roads and electricity. Unlike many another Brazilian political charmer, Juscelino is making his campaign oratory come true. His slogan: "What I start I finish...
PONTIAC, following the trend to superdeluxe models, will turn out a new Star Chief line in 1954 only two inches shorter overall (213 in.) than this year's Cadillac, and priced to compete with medium-priced Buicks and Oldsmobile 88. Features, besides fancier trim; new springs, higher horsepower (up to 127), as much as 40% more trunk space and a driver's seat with multiple adjustments...
...these signs, 74-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh, after 81 days in jail, was in his best fighting trim. As Premier, he had stood off the British Empire from his bedroom; lying languidly on his iron bed, he had dangled and defied coveys of U.S. diplomats; on the rostrum, shaking, sighing and crying, he had stirred street mobs to frenzy. Now he had taken his act to court...
...England, fox hunting is a ready-made pastime. The tidy, trim fields and meadows offer running space for hound and horse, arid tricky as the fox is, he cannot disguise his scent, which hangs heavy in England's damp countryside. Transplanted to the U.S., the sport has become even sportier-for the fox-as was demonstrated last week at Fort Campbell, Ky., where some 700 hunters and 300 hounds gathered for the 60th National Fox Hunters' Association Field Trials. The 100,000-acre military reservation was tinder-dry with just 3 in. of rain since June; though both...
...affecting dozens of industries. On the other hand, a price cut affects only the individual company and possibly its stockholders. However, with corporate profits at close to an all-time high-and the death of the excess-profits tax only six weeks away-many corporations should be able to trim prices without endangering dividends...