Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth Army is ready for the enemy. It is in the best trim and the strongest positions of its Korean career...
Mother with Crystal Ball. In 1936, in a bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, Farouk, a tall, trim boy of 16, got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King...
...Early Days. The men he owes his life to are the medics and surgeons of the Army's ist Provisional Neurosurgical Detachment and its trim, brown-haired commander, Lieut. Colonel Arnold M. Meirowsky. In the early days in Korea, it often took a week or more be fore a man with a delicate head wound could be gotten to a neurosurgeon back in Tokyo. The chances of infection are great in head and spinal wounds; too many of the first cases died or suffered crippling paralysis. Nowadays, thanks to forward-area teams, wounded men are being treated...
...tall, sunburned man in a straw hat climbed out of a small plane at the Syracuse airport last week, and with a trim, grey-haired woman hurrying along beside him, made for the airport waiting room. No one recognized Mr. & Mrs. John Foster Dulles as they crossed the crowded lobby, sat down at the lunch counter and ordered ice-cream sodas...
...another in describing MacArthur. He was "America's greatest soldiers statesman," and "like some sequoia, calm and proudly decked." Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham wrote that the general and his wife were "fresh as flowers in a florist's refrigerator" and noted, "If every wife were as pretty, as trim and as charming as Mrs. MacArthur, despite Corregidor, Australia, Japan, etc., They wouldn't have to resort to dreaming...