Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential jeans were trim, the snakeskin boots glistened in the Sunday sun and the white knit tennis shirt clung flatteringly to Ronald Reagan's chest. As he chatted with a few friends and reporters on the White House's South Lawn, one newsman complimented him on his flat belly. Having a gym so handy in the White House really helped, said Reagan, adding with a proud grin, "Here, feel these triceps." The reporter gingerly tested Reagan's arm. The muscles were firm. Despite his chest wound and nearly nine months in the Oval Office, Reagan...
...inspiration. True, there were crowds, of a sort. Over nine days, 79,000 rock fans chanted lyrics, swayed from side to side, and occasionally danced in the grandstands to the thumping sounds and prancing antics of their daringly costumed, idolized performers. But most male haircuts in the audience were trim and short, and there was no topless boogying, unabashed sex or potluck...
Caspar Weinberger against Budget Director David Stockman, the President eventually announced that there would be only a $13 billion trim in the increase in military spending over the next three years, and a mere $2 billion cut for fiscal 1982. He also ruled out deferring the tax reductions enacted in July. In rejecting these courses, Reagan could plead consistency. He has been adamant in calling for a military buildup to counter the Soviet threat. In his speech he described national security as "Government's first responsibility." He had also campaigned on a pledge to lower taxes and could hardly...
...into the station at Lyon. The 265-mile trip, ordinarily 3 hrs. 48 min., had taken 2 hrs. 30 min. By the end of October, 38 TGV trains will be in daily operation. In 1983, TGV track will extend to Marseille, a 4 hr. 50 min. ride that will trim two hours off the present schedule. Eventually Le Train will run west to Rennes and Nantes and perhaps one day north to Brussels and London, if a channel tunnel is built...
...longest line of new cars this fall belongs to Ford. The No. 2 carmaker is adding four-door versions of its small E cort and Lynx cars, as well as a scaled-down model of the Lincoln Continental that will sell for about $21,000. The trim new luxury car, which gets 17 m.p.g. in city driving, is intended to draw drivers away from sporty foreign cars like Mer cedes and BMW. Beams Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "I've personally sold half a dozen of them already...