Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trim Sails. In 1957, after their children had grown up, Sean and Kathleen Lemass moved from their big old house in Dublin to an unpretentious seven-room bungalow in a pleasant suburb south of the capital, where the Prime Minister is picked up by a government car at 9:45 a.m. each day. He seldom returns until after dinner. Some years ago, Lemass cut down on golf and cards-to the relief of old poker cronies who usually wound up losers when Lemass played-to devote more time to the job. Sturdy (5 ft. 10 in.) and carefully groomed...
...Shriver's journalistic interest, he asked him to look at some diaries written in Spain during the Civil War by the late Joseph Kennedy Jr. to see if they were publishable. Shriver read them, said frankly that they weren't. But Joe Kennedy was impressed with handsome, trim (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) Sarge Shriver, and offered him a job as his fulltime personal representative at the Chicago Merchandise Mart...
...have passed almost unnoticed as the standard line, East or West. But now there was a sudden movement on the floor, and out of the hall stalked 50 of the finest, most peace-loving Italian females ever gathered in one bunch at the Kremlin. What was bothering them? A trim Roman blonde explained: "We are here as women to work for peace and not to engage in cold war polemics." More to the point, Japan's Communist Party is one of those aligned with Red China, and Italy's Red ladies were unmistakably showing their solidarity with Comrade...
...cater to the expense-account trade seemed to be overjoyed. "It certainly doesn't do anything for me," grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened the expenses of their employees, and they are not about to liberalize them again." If so, Caplin...
...major preoccupation is what Author Mary McCarthy has called "the tyranny of the orgasm." In contrast to the attitude of the 19th century lady who said, "I lie still and think of a new way to trim a hat," the unblushing bride of today, in the words of one case history, expects every night to be "like a Cape Canaveral countdown." Author Davis finds many modern husbands and wives harassed and unsettled by the notion that anything other than a mutual orgasm amounts to sexual failure. Writes she: "We have substituted new fears for old ones, new guilt for inherited...