Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the politicians, organized by U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, decided to trim the redhead down a size or two. In county meetings to pick delegates to the state convention, only seven of 77 counties elected Edmondson backers, thus ended his bid to name a new state chairman...
McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...clouds of political fury drifted away after the French atomic explosion, the world's scientists last week had their first chance to take a calm, studied look at the French achievement. Even the high commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission joined in the dispassionate stocktaking. Said trim, goateed Francis Perrin: "It [the explosion] gives us no more than a folding seat, and not an armchair, in the atomic club. One must not entwine the vain sense of glory around this experiment...
...Still trim and vigorous at 69, Heller gets to his office at 7:40 in the morning, keeps a strong personal hold on the company. He sees nothing but growth for his type of lending, figures that in a growing economy there will always be enough firms on the way up who need a firm but friendly guiding hand...
Wheaton students, predominantly Baptist (702) and Presbyterian (211), are fervent hymn singers and zealous doers of good works in nearby Chicago's hospitals and slums, but the lipsticked coeds and moccasined young men look as trim and handsome as those on any U.S. campus. The restrictions of Wheaton life seem to be no hardship; no more than five or ten students a year are asked to leave for breaking their pledge not to dance, drink, smoke, play cards or go to the movies...