Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers sank her. One destroyer picked up 30 survivors, another six-apparently the only men saved from the Scharnhorst's crew of 1,460. Three British ships had suffered minor damage. The Germans lost their only capital ship in fighting trim, will now have to rely mainly on submarines and airplanes in fighting off the Allied invasion fleets they must soon expect to face...
...naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids. Allied tallies indicated that the Scharnhorst must have been the only German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation, of strain under pressure, of failing submarine and air power which once made the Murmansk route a death alley for United...
Churchill brought along his daughter, Mrs. Vic Oliver (full title: Section Officer Sarah Oliver, WAAF), as aide-de-camp and hostess. Trim in her blue uniform, she stunned a group of important British naval officers (who had not recognized her) by saying crisply: "You can't have any drinks before noon...
...Nash's rhymes are for a wonder not wild-eyed, merely trim and now & then tired...
...Ladies Only. The women's final brought together two red-gold coiffured stylists, sturdy Louise Brough (rhymes with rock) and the trim 1942 champ with the trigger backhand, Pauline Betz. Miss Betz had a tough three-set tussle to renew her title...