Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis, Los Angeles-and dozens of other airports are also undergoing major face-liftings. New runways are being hacked out of the wilderness in Asia and South America, and the travel-worn airports of Paris, Amsterdam and Mexico City, familiar to thousands of U.S. tourists, will soon sport a trim, unfamiliar look...
Abroad, British beauties, trim of limb, firm of bosom and svelte of hip, have long been in demand - Paris' Folies-Bergere has padded out its chorus with a dozen British imports. As one chauvinistic British lady editor argued: "The Swedes are too pallid, the Spanish girls have long, forbidding noses, and Americans have bread-crumb skins." At home, too, British figures are now coming out from under wraps, as bathing suits, including bikinis, are happily adopted as something to be seen in out of the water...
...with any bold architectural venture, the results have often met with a mixed critical reaction. Eero Saarinen's Oslo embassy (opposite) has been warmly praised, while his nearly completed London embassy, which combines traditional Portland stone with straw-colored aluminum trim, has been sharply taken to task for being too brash and bright. In New Delhi, Edward D. Stone adopted the form of an Indian temple and wrapped it with a lacy grille that lights up like a jewel box at night. The New Delhi embassy has been so widely admired that it now stays open on Sundays...
Among all the speculators in stocks, no one, day in and day out, takes greater risks than John Aloysius Coleman, 58, a trim, broad-shouldered Irishman with the saturnine look and sad eyes of a bloodhound. He is a stock specialist and is required by the New York Stock Exchange to "make the market" and help stabilize prices in the 52 stocks he specializes in. This means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when...
...carnival-like displays around the nation, was giving away cokes, ice cream and balloons to kids who brought their mothers to the fair (next week, the kids can trade their mothers for space helmets). Whirlpool has cut distributor prices 6% on some refrigerator models. General Electric has stripped trim off other models to sell them as cheaper "economy specials." The industry was hustling as quickly as it could to move its oversupply of goods...