Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota's votes listen to his tireless speechmaking with...
...excellent physical trim. The magnitude of the gamble has not outwardly affected him. His health is robust, his sleep undisturbed. It is the kind of conditioning all soldiers must achieve, or blow...
John Dewey Rides Again-One Christmas, Humorist Perelman decided to trim a Christmas tree. Advised Mademoiselle: "Dip tips of twisted cotton strips into India ink." Author Perelman went to work muttering: "Tip dips of twisted crotton sips. . . . Sip dips of cristed totton tips." Finally he surrendered to House & Garden's "inspiration of the season-an upside-down-evergreen tree swung from the ceiling...
...passed two German officers headed along to our prison stockade, passed a column of young dandies on bicycles, a young Italian bridal couple, the bride trim and shapely in a grey suit adorned by a bright nosegay...
...contrary, WAVES thrive of plenty of exercise and outdoor life manage to keep in trim despite plenty of Navy chow, and never meet an enemy Jap except behind bars. They could probably throw him for a loop...