Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year chief prosecutor for the Los Angeles district attorney, in charge of the D.A.'s suburban Downey office. Between them, they were earning $40,000 a year. They were a good-looking, high-style couple. Elaine, with her hazel eyes, red hair and trim, 114-lb. figure, was still, at 43, a woman woman-watchers watched. Jack, 6 ft. 1 in. and handsome, with a lively, inquiring mind, was a 45-year-old social lion...
...great liability that trim, urbane, greyingly handsome Kingman Brewster, at 48, looks rather as if he had been type-cast by Otto Preminger for the job of chief salesman and spokesman for Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician who enjoys academic ceremony. At the same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough...
...creative output was meager by most standards: she published only seven trim collections of poetry and short stories. "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay," she said, "unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damned good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic...
...into effect only if Congress repeals the controversial system by which duties on organic benzenoid chemicals-notably dyes, sulfa drugs, plastics and pesticides-are based on their American selling price, which results in tariffs as high as 172%. If Congress does so, the Common Market and Austria agreed to trim the carefully contrived taxes which help to keep large-horsepower U.S. autos out of Europe, and Britain promised to ease its Commonwealth preference on tobacco imports...
...accomplishment the Kennedy Round disappointed the world's developing countries, which contend that they must have preferential tariffs in order to escape their poverty. Under French pressure on behalf of France's former colonies, the Common Market failed to trim duties at all on tropical foods and fibers, thus stopping the U.S. from doing so. By common consent, devising more tariff help for the world's poor nations will be GATT's next order of business...