Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremony at which Macmillan accepted the peerage was tinged with sadness. Robed in resplendent red with ermine trim, he seemed to personify Britain's decline as a great power. He stood frail and trembling, an aging lion leaning on a walking stick concealed beneath his robes. When it came time for him to affix his signature to the act of his ennoblement, Macmillan fumbled and had to be guided. Then, straight and firm, he held the paper containing the oath close to his failing eyes and read his pledge in a clear, ringing voice: "I Harold, Earl of Stockton...
...people of Howard Beach, Queens, have always been proud that their neighborhood is set apart, insulated from the rest of New York City. A close- knit community of modest row houses and trim gardens, it is bordered by Jamaica Bay to the south, Spring Creek Park to the west, Kennedy Airport to the east and a highway to the north. Along Cross Bay Boulevard, the community's main artery, clam bars and pizza parlors contend for local business, while above the street sea gulls lazily flap their wings. Most of Howard Beach's inhabitants are Italians, and its older section...
...trim 250 pounds, Moore was not pushed around by law school admissions officers. After he was ignored--as he expected to be--in that spring's NFL draft, the Phi Beta Kappa athlete made plans to follow his father's footsteps at Duke...
...that matter from those of Ronald Reagan, who campaigned unavailingly against him. Democrat Graham, 50, who enters the Senate after eight years as Governor, supports the Strategic Defense Initiative and aid to the Nicaraguan contras, and he considers the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act a "necessary sledgehammer" to trim federal spending...
When federal agents seize property in drug cases, the Government must maintain it in good condition. But what happens when the confiscations include a couple of Thoroughbred racehorses? To keep them in running trim, the U.S. Marshals Service has kept them running...