Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write well requires confidence. The good writer is sure of his ear, his cadence, and his imagery. He must trim his prose with the zeal of the Inquisition. He needs the courage to choose those thoughts which seem right to him, the belief that his thoughts are worth articulating, and the faith that the articulation of those thoughts is worthy. In short, the successful writer is cockily sure of his craft. He is willing to put in the extra hours of work because he knows the result will be commensurate to his effort...
...with a folksy story about a Russian woodsman. Then, in a voice strained from singing When the Saints Go Marching In to Soviets and Americans gathered at the Chautauqua Institution, he discussed the dangers of nuclear weapons and the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars. Finally, the trim, 5-ft. 8-in. physicist, who rarely drinks and never smokes, concluded with his vision for a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. mission to Mars. The performance was vintage Sagdeyev: a mixture of wit, charm and trenchant observation...
...Trim, in good shape, in his grey flannel suit, White hardly looked like the political boss that his ward-savvy rhetoric suggested. He said the politics of the Boston which he served were of an era gone...
...their houses. "One might look like Mount Vernon, one like the White House and one like Monticello," says Randolph Williams, developer of more than 20 luxury-home communities in the Washington suburbs. Inside, the new mansions often combine traditional elegance and modern glitz. Among the common features are mahogany trim, granite counter tops, marble floors, custom-made Palladian windows and spectacularly high ceilings...
...execution, Jane Francioni's family gathered at their trim lakeside home in Slidell, 30 miles northeast of the city, to console themselves and pray. "We are totally spent," sighed Jane's anguished mother Mary Catherine. "It was we who got the life sentence." Her son Norman expressed the grief of all who were connected to the two deaths: "We're victims, they're victims, everyone's a victim in this...