Word: trimming
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...Jusceli-no! Jusceli-no!" chanted a handkerchief-waving throng of 3,000 at Rio's Galeão international airport. Then from the doorway of an Air France 707 came the man, still trim and agile despite his 63 years, his face split in a toothful smile, his right arm swinging in a familiar jaunty wave. Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek-still admired by the people but loathed as a symbol of corruption by the present revolutionary government-had returned home after 16 months of self-imposed exile. Said he: "I have come back at zero hour...
...began with a few California surfers who could sew. The girls had imported bright, flowery muu muus from Hawaii to wear after surfing. But muu muus were originally thought up by missionaries to cover up the exposed breasts of the native women. The kids trimmed off the excess material, accentuated the bodice for trim fit, slit the skirt for free movement, and finished it all off with yards of ruffles and flourishes. When enough of the home-grown variety showed up on the street, store buyers decided it was a fad worth cashing in on. Selling...
Fulsome Apology. Instead of resigning the chairmanship, Passman last week chose the chastening task of managing a $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that he abominated-and had been able to trim by only $75 million, a mere nick by former standards. It was one of the strangest performances in the memory of the House...
Cities on Stilts. It was a dictum much misunderstood. Le Corbusier loved the machine not for its function but for its economy of form. He preferred American grain elevators to Gothic cathedrals, but only because they were trim manifestations of a man-made world long removed from the saintly preoccupations of the medieval age. He ridiculed the beaux-arts esthetic that caused designers to disguise railway stations as Roman temples and believed that art nouveau's attempt to doll up houses with plantlike curlicues was a sham...
...JOBS: The doubling of draft calls, to 35,000 a month, will trim unemployment in the under-20 age group where the rate is a high 16% (v. 4.4% for the labor force as a whole...