Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motor Co. Ltd. set out to develop a low-priced sports car that would do 90 m.p.h. Last May, in twelve test runs over Belgium's flat Jabbeke highway near Ostend, Standard's new car racked up top speeds of 125.8 m.p.h. with a stripped down "speed" trim and 115.4 in touring trim (with the top up). Standard's delighted managing director, Sir John Black, 58, christened it the TR-2 (Triumph Two Liter) in honor of Triumph Motor Co. Ltd., the Standard subsidiary that built...
...door of the U.S. Senate chamber opened one afternoon last week, and a guest was ushered in. Harry S. Truman, tanned and eupeptic, not quite as trim and natty as he used to be (he no longer has a personal valet), beamed as Senators and visitors broke into applause...
...week's end, Aranha had promised to pay even if he had to dip into Brazil's gold reserves. When he said he would not devalue the currency now, the cruzeiro free-rate firmed up from 52 to 45 to the dollar. In a move to trim ship, he decided to unload Brazil's overpriced cotton stocks on the world market, though it might mean taking a $27 million loss on the treasury books. It was a tough line, but it won support at home and abroad. President Getulio Vargas called in his old-time lieutenant...
First to appear outside the U.S. correspondents' billets in Seoul one day last week were ranks of pigtailed schoolgirls, trim and neat in starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...