Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson looked trim and cool in a grey tropical suit when he walked into Room 212 in the Senate Office Building last week and faced the Senate committees. For the past fortnight, he had spent every spare minute preparing his case. He read every line of the 1,050,000-word testimony of Douglas MacArthur and of the Administration's witnesses. State Department staffers had been working day & night digging out papers, preparing briefings; they even analyzed the questions of individual Senators for their attitude and special interests...
...Give These Books." The college that was to grow into Yale University was born on a table top in the parlor of a trim farmhouse in Branford, Conn. To that house, one day in 1700-when Harvard was already 64 years old and Princeton still 46 years away-came ten clergymen from all over the Colony, bearing books. One by one, each approached the table with the words: "I give these books for founding a college in Connecticut." By the next year the new "Collegiate School" had a charter, and by the year after that, one student-a wistful sophomore...
...builders complained that mortgage money had all but dried up, because of the Government's "tighter money" policy. The Federal Reserve Board, with its Regulation X, had sought to trim 1951's new housing starts to 800,000, but builders cried that they might well fall below 700,000, and predicted imminent unemployment in the building trades. Even steelmen caught the contagion, began worrying about a possible glut of steel. Said U.S. Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless: "That period may be nearer than most people think...
...clapped and shouted on & on. Across 8,700 miles, through cheering crowds, clouds of black headlines and storms of angry argument, Douglas Mac-Arthur had come to this podium to make his stand before the nation and to state his case to the world. He stood in a trim Eisenhower jacket without ribbons or medals, back rigid, his face stony - a dis missed commander conscious that history plucked at his sleeve, peered down at him from the lenses of the television cameras. He waited, impassively. As silence fell, he began to speak slowly, in a deep, reso nant voice...
...TROTTERS TRIM ALL STARS...