Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more heads of state than most people can name. Only recently, he and Caroline were trundled out in their night clothes to say hello to the King of Morocco before a state dinner. Caro line curtsied and John Jr. shook hands. Indeed, if some brave barber were to trim his Prince Charles hairdo, John F. Kennedy Jr. would look like quite a little...
...which sparked the American revolution in favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...
...concessions designed to modernize productive equipment and lure new industry into the areas of heavy unemployment. Added to sizable previous concessions to industry that he had already granted since taking over as Chancellor last July, Maudling hoped that his new budget incentives would put the economy in fighting trim by next April-which is about the time when Britain is likely to go to the polls to choose its next government...
Neon & Sewage. A symbol of Tahoe's troubles is an eleven-story hunk of hardware with anodized aluminum trim called Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort Hotel, which opened for business last week. Three hundred invited guests showed up for 24 hectic hours of freeloading fun in the public rooms and the gadget-strewn suites (each with its own bar). Upstairs was a great big polynesian-style restaurant, and downstairs was a great big gambling casino; across the street was another casino run by Reno's Bill Harrah and featuring Comedienne Phyllis Diller. Who could ask for anything...
...Bell was the first correspondent to discover and report that the real head of the junta was not Mohammed Naguib, but an unknown colonel named Nasser. Now, seeing Nasser for the first time in nine years. Bell methodically noted his grey temples and greying hair and a figure as trim as ever. Weight? Nasser laughed: "I don't think anyone has asked me that since the last time you did. I think it's 85 kilos [187 lbs.] And I think I'm still 182 centimeters [6 ft.] tall...