Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss was Betty Brown, a trim, pretty redhead and a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California. For Wouk, it was a clear case of love at second sight. Betty was a Protestant, but not a practicing one. She thinks now that part of Herman's appeal for her was that he made her see "that one didn't have to be a stupe to be religious." When Herman went back to sea, Betty Brown began studying Judaism, and a year later, on her 25th birthday, became a Jewish convert. Betty's Hebrew name...
...More Raw Fish. On appeal to the local Civil Service Commission, Citizen Kane was returned to limited duty, put on medical probation for a year, and sternly ordered to trim down to 222 lbs. before the year was up. While all Hawaii looked on, fascinated, Peter went on a diet...
...Taking time out from his racing cars, Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham, flying the burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club on his trim sloop Spindrift, won the National Atlantic Class sailing championship at the Sea Cliff (L.I.) Yacht Club. Second: Cunningham's clubmate Hoyt Perry. Third: Novelist John (The Watt) Hersey...
...buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought to justice." The witness pointed across the courtroom to the trim and carefully uniformed Sergeant Gallagher: "That...
Although he tried his hand at oceangoing yachts, notably his own Vigilant (1930), Fox's best designs were sailing dinghies and small, trim sloops. In 1928 he designed the Avenger, an "International Fourteen" dinghy with a planing hull that made it a sure winner before the wind. In 57 starts. Avenger collected 52 firsts, two seconds and three thirds...