Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasonal zeal for gift giving is not confined to the U.S. Taking their cue from the U.S., stores and streets all over Western Europe are decked out in Christmas trim to lure affluent buyers. In officially atheistic Russia, where the authorities frown upon the "bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens still crowd into department stores and exchange gifts around the "New Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter...
...Australians dispatched helicopters. The U.S. Seventh Fleet, after President Kennedy telegraphed sympathy and offers of assistance to Governor Rockefeller, volunteered a carrier and planes. Rockefeller and his daughter soon left the actual search to experienced eyes, and they followed progress of the hunt from the district commissioner's trim white house at Merauke...
...heart of the Southwest project is a complex of glass-and-stone apartments, a new shopping center, 81 trim town houses, and a new theater for the city's Arena Stage Players. Along Tenth Street, which will be widened, Manhattan's William Zeckendorf is putting up a 1,000-room hotel, three big office buildings and dozens of shops, all surrounding a plaza to be named after City Planner L'Enfant...
...celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Only a few days after the panoply of the Party Congress, thousands of civilian demonstrators gathered in their assigned staging areas, huddling beneath banners, signs and floats. As crowds filled the bleacher seats on both sides of Red Square, the trim battalions of the Moscow garrison drew up across from the Mausoleum now solely occupied by Lenin...
...economy. Last week, in preparing the national budget-one of the biggest single factors in shaping the economy-President Kennedy made it clear that the Administration is concerned about the state of the economy and the heavy load it must bear to keep the U.S. in fighting trim. For the New Frontier, Kennedy decreed a new fiscal policy: frugality...