Word: trimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mencken, who cares for nobody, except for the laughs, the whole race looked satisfactorily scandalous. He described President Truman as a "shabby mountebank," Tom Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
Pietro Nenni, a Socialist trimmer who supports the Communists because he thinks they are going to win, does not talk to Italians about war. He talks about better living standards. Yet if enough Italians follow Nenni, Communism will win the Middle East-and military men think the Middle East would be the most important theater in a war between Russia and the U.S. It would make a lot of difference which side controls that area...
Lighter in weight, darker in color, trimmer, tougher, younger-looking, Clark Gable graduated as a second lieutenant from the Army Air Forces officer candidate school at Miami, got a secret assignment. Off to the Army at California...
...favorites among his top fighting men, he can justify all his actions of the past 30 years in terms most Germans can understand and applaud. For a good end he stooped to low means. He shucked dignity, closed his eyes to principles, was alternately sycophant, stout leader, wheedling trimmer and belligerent hell-roarer. The method worked. Few years ago his Navy was "the ugly little stepchild of the Government." Today the stepchild is a favorite, Germans can look on its face and find it shining and full of promise...
...back they muttered: "that cow of vacillation." They used to draw cartoons of Léon Blum shaking with fright at the gusty leftism released when his Popular Front swept the 1936 elections. But last week, at the "war guilt" trials in Riom, ex-Premier Daladier was no flabby trimmer, ex-Premier Blum no weakling...