Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sideline at the Chicago Daily News Relays, trim, balding Track Coach Mihaly Igloi stood with a slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand...
This is an appropriately slim, trim, red-white-and-blue booklet issued in 1958 by the Royal Canadian Air Force, consisting of two exercise systems known as "5BX" (Five Basic Exercises) for men and "XBX" (Ten Basic Exercises) for women. First offered to the public about three years ago, the manual has been a snowballing bestseller that has so far sold 650,000 copies in the U.S. (600,000 in Canada, 130,000 in Australia and New Zealand...
Being a collection of mortals, some Congressmen are lazy or incompetent, others drink too much, some have a trained eye for a trim ankle, and a few-are not overly honest. The House is generally tolerant of all such failings, which makes it all the more unusual that the House is actually trying to do something about Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell...
...escapades began early in 1961, when he met a trim young woman identified only as "Miss X" at the zoo in Sydney's Taronga Park and recruited her as a Soviet agent. She seemed willing, but to test her trustworthiness, he conducted a couple of tests, feeding her money-$952 in all-and handing her minor assignments. Once she had to pick up a small cylinder concealed in a water meter; another time she found one hidden in the iron railing of a stairway...
...capital gains, Kennedy's package would trim the rates but stretch out the minimum holding period from the present six months to one year. He calls for outright repeal of some special-case provisions that presently clutter the income tax forms...