Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes can "grow" with the wearer (e.g., pleated "sesame seams" on shirts, running from front to back, can be sheared open to make the shirt larger and sleeves longer). The clothes are more expensive (10 to 20%) than other children's clothes. But Designer Geissmann figures that their trim appearance and longer usefulness make them worth...
Then they are collected by their trainer, who runs them up & down to get them into fighting trim, tosses them in the air and catches them to toughen up their bodies. They are fed special diets, which chicken men usually try to keep secret from each other. John Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost...
...crew of the AK 601 can fight is against their captain, who makes life tough for others because life was tough for him. The crew's great hero is Lieut, (j.g.) Roberts, a "quiet guy who, while sweating to get transferred to the real fight, keeps in trim scrapping with the skipper. But when the captain refuses the crew a desperately needed shore leave, Mr. Roberts, to get it for them, promises to toe the line. The amazed and disgusted crew thinks that Mr. Roberts has ratted, only to find out the truth and worship him the more...
...returned a year ago from three years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Sun syndicate. Last summer he was hired by the New Republic for eight weeks of editorial doctoring, stayed on as managing editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some of the more expensive help? The list came down to half a dozen, but Johnson found himself caught...
Judge's Choice. As the little girl had noticed, exhibition Bedlingtons look more like lambs than dogs. Their natural topcoat grows fairly long, but handlers trim it. In their northern English homeland, where the breed originated around 1825, Bedlingtons were anything but lamblike. Tough miners of Bedlington used them to hunt badgers and otters; sometimes they pitted two Bedlingtons together in finish fights for big wagers...