Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then one day while waiting my turn for a fast trim at the barber's, I picked up the June 1 issue of TIME and read the following article in MISCELLANY...
...both up about 150% since 1945. With U.S.-made steel all but priced out of foreign markets and losing domestic markets to low-cost foreign steel (TIME. July 20), the steel industry finally decided to hold out against a wage boost unless the union conceded management more freedom to trim costs by cutting down on "featherbedding and loafing...
...hills in pairs and call themselves the "Horsemen of the East." On paper, another outfit called the "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion" has 100,000 bureaucrats, ex-soldiers and foreign mercenaries, including a few veterans of the Spanish Blue Division. The legion drills weekly on a Ciudad Trujillo fairground in trim new uniforms, could probably muster 16,000 with arms. Though the dictator's vast bureaucracy and army are shot through with men who secretly oppose him, these men see no reasonable alternative...
...singlehand a 28-footer as a 14-year-old on Long Island Sound and went on to become a legendary figure, a man who may well have sailed-and won-more races than anyone in the sport's history. Corny Shields spoke of the jib ("Don't trim it flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew ("Don't have a light-hearted comedian as a member of a serious racing crew"). He even talked about the weather ("Squalls from the northwest...
...fascination of yachting is that there is always more to learn. No one can know it all. I went out just last Saturday and learned more about sail trim than any day I can remember. That's what's so wonderful-new lessons and rewards every time...