Word: trimly
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...said that Miss Taylor intentionally gained weight to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? If so, she must have gone into this film too fast to trim it off. Huston wisely spends most of the time presenting Miss Taylor in unbuttoned blouses, but a full-length nude shot of her (or her stand-in) climbing a stair simply fails to justify the spying enlisted man's sudden fixation for her. Her performance is, on the other hand, quite thin, with Miss Taylor's most affecting scenes those with her horse...
...nonactive force, the Organized Reserve, which stands separate from the Guard and currently numbers 260,000. Congress balked each time, and until recently Secretary McNamara has had not much more luck with his own reserve reorganization schemes. At last, however, a program seems to be near acceptance. It would trim the Guard in relatively minor terms: from 418,500 men to 400,000. It would be aimed at using those men in fewer, more efficient, more powerful units. To do this, the reorganization proposal would effectively change the shape of the Guard, eliminating 15 of the existing 23 divisions, restructuring...
...trim, athletic-looking man, dressed entirely in grey, stepped from a West Berlin taxi near a checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse. He beckoned to an East German border guard, exchanged a few words with him, and then hurried across the border into East Berlin. The man was not a defector or a spy. He was a high-ranking West German official who carried in his black briefcase an important letter from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Premier Willi Stoph of East Germany...
...intra-Cabinet maneuver and often stole the march on his fellow secretaries in influencing the President's decisions. It was he, more than any other Administration figure, who drafted the Allied economic battle plan for World War II and brought America's fiscal physique back to fighting trim...
...internationalist supporters of foreign aid whose aversion to the Viet Nam war has converted them in some measure to a form of isolationism. For four days, Democratic floor managers steered the bill through an obstacle course of debate and dozens of amend ments, virtually all of them designed to trim foreign aid funds or tie strings to their use. On the fourth night the House went into marathon session...