Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shave & a Haircut. Harry Truman's moment of victory found him prepared. He had called in a barber, had a shave and a hair trim. He put on a fresh white shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm...
Residents of La Fayette, Ind. (pop. 35,000) had never seen anything quite like it. One day they saw men unloading a truck at a weed-grown lot. Six days later a trim new two-bedroom house stood there, complete with shrubs and fresh-laid concrete walks. Most startling of all was the price: $5,750, including...
Into the ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, one night last week, swept a trim, greying woman in a ruby red satin dress, with a U.S. Senator on one arm and a retired judge on the other. In the room was just about everybody who was anybody in Kansas City, and they gave a five-minute ovation to 59-year-old Dressmaker Nellie Donnelly...
...wife, whom he calls "Sugar," almost always goes with him. Both Strom and Sugar are Baptists, teetotalers and nonsmokers. The virile governor keeps himself in trim by riding, walking, and standing on his head...
First on their list are the Harvard yachtsmen, and three Radcliffe girls who can trim the sheets with the best of them have challenged Pete Putnam, commodore of the Harvard dinghy crews, in a race for the Charles River crown...