Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glazed over with ice. Next morning, as the gates swung open, a crowd of 8,000 Japanese in holiday dress shuffled across the famed double bridge and onto the expanse of grass where the great wooden palace had stood until leveled by American bombs. Shyly smiling, stooped but trim, Emperor Hirohito stepped to the front of a white platform and waved a languid New Year's blessing to the crowd...
...auto industry, hailed in 1960 as one of the chief props of a sagging economy, last week showed signs of sagging itself. Faced with slipping sales in December and a backlog of about 1,000,000 new cars, a record for this time of year, the industry began to trim production to fit in more closely with sales. The cutbacks meant that production in the next few months will look poor when compared with 1960, when the industry produced heavily in the first quarter to replenish stocks depleted by the steel strike...
Archibald Cox, 48, Solicitor General. Ever present at Senator John Kennedy's side during the 1958-59 congressional battles over a labor reform bill was a trim, crew-cut law professor whom North Carolina's grumpy Graham Barden dubbed "that nit picker from Harvard." Shy, witty
...American than Catholic. Without representing an ' official position-and without running counter to it-he is now telling his fellow Catholics that they must become more intellectually aware of their ' coexistence'' in a pluralist, heavily Protestant society. But not even remotely is he trying to trim Catholicism to any other faith, or to the absence of faith. In his view, Catholics can make a major contribution-perhaps the decisive contribution-to an American society in spiritual crisis. His terms may startle some non-Catholics. "The question is not," says Murray, "whether Catholicism is safe for democracy...
Before the Bulls. Ruddy and trim (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), Bensinger likes sports and travel almost as much as his job. He has shot pigeons with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, sipped wine with Pablo Picasso in Paris, played golf with Sam Snead. An aficionado, he has run before the bulls in Pamplona's festival of San Fermin and ried out his cape work against calves on [uan Belmonte's ranch in Spain. He has ished all over the world, once fired into a flight of blue-winged teal and killed eleven with a single shot. He even finds...