Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they picked is a trim, 47-year-old political scientist and onetime Ohio high-school principal named Grayson L. Kirk, who arrived at Morningside Heights as an associate professor of government only ten years ago. At Columbia, Grayson Kirk soon showed that he was a first-class administrator as well as teacher, with a talent for making things hum. He threw himself into the work of the Academy of Political Science, headed Columbia's Institute of European Studies. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation staff at Dumbarton Oaks and helped set up the U.N. Security Council...
...Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations in the northeast, and on one flight Wood himself was forced to fly back to base on trim tabs after Chinese ground fire had crippled the control surface of his elevators. But in four days Combat Cargo Command lifted 2,650 casualties off the improved airstrip at Hagaru and whisked them off to hospitals in Japan...
...planned to fly immediately to Indo-China, wield both political and military authority, which had been divided between High Commissioner Pignon and General Marcel Carpentier. A trim, tough disciplinarian, described by his colleagues as électrique, De Lattre has been chief of Western European land forces under the Brussels five-power defense union, soon to be superseded by the broader North Atlantic twelve-power pact...
England's grey stone, gothic cathedrals and trim, bottle-green countryside, and the fleshless abstractions of modern European art, only roused Williams' nostalgia for Guiana. "I'd been too busy trying to understand European art and I'd overlooked the material at my own back door." Last year he went home to Guiana to take another look...
With key metals and other raw materials in short supply, some Britons warned that their industry would be crippled within six months. Actually, cutbacks in raw materials were no greater in Britain than those ordered for the U.S. But austere Britain had virtually no fat it could trim off its civilian economy. Shortages cut directly into defense production, sent prices skyrocketing...