Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign affairs, at least, a Democratic Congress would mean continuing the same basic policy without the danger that isolationists would trim defense and foreign aid budgets consistent with national security. On the other hand, domestic affairs are not so pressing at this time; while a Democratic Congress and a Republican Administration might mean an stalemate on this area, there would at least be a stop to the4 amazing give-away that the last two years have seen...
...border commission in charge of dividing Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia arrived one day last week at the two-acre plot of Luca Eller, a 65-year-old farmer of Italian extraction. The commissioners discovered that the line laid out in the Trieste agreement would cut directly through the trim, two-story red house where Eller lived with his wife, his two sons and his two grandchildren...
Last week Arpels basked in a notoriety all his own. Caparisoned in a trim salt-and-pepper sports suit and oodles of pearls, Helene paraded into a Manhattan court to tell a sordid tale of domestic dolor. Arpels had turned out to be a 24-carat gem dandy, complained Helene, who married him in 1933, but his diamonds were another girl's best friend. The other woman: "a mere nightclub singer named Juliana Larson." After acting distracted last year in France, testified Helene, Arpels announced to her that "he didn't have much time to live and wanted...
...mostly then. Along with most other married couples on the campus, Len and Jackie live in the ramshackle remnants of a wartime housing project that has already served a generation of veterans. The hard lines of dreary shacks, linked to each other by lengths of clothesline, are softened by trim lawns and swarms of children. At 6:30 every morning, Lisa Anne doubles as an alarm clock, Jackie gets breakfast, and Len rushes to get ready for classes. Afternoons he spends on the practice field; evenings, he tries to find energy to study...
...Dogtrotting regularly for the morning train and brisk walking to appointments keep the heart and lungs in trim for emergencies, reported Philadelphia's Dr. Burgess L. Gordon. "It's the habit of taking things easy most of the time and then placing a sudden strain on the body in an emergency that is dangerous...