Word: trims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's top woman athlete. But she is no longer the rough-&-tumble tomboy (or "muscle moll" as some sportswriters preferred to call her) that she was in the days of the 1932 Olympics. That was an era when her specialties were baseball, basketball and track. Now trim, athletic and 32, she carries 145 Ibs. gracefully, wears silly hats, nylons and red fingernail polish when she dresses...
...cunning that crowns their colleagues in other lands. The senseless excesses of EAM terrorists have long held Communist gains below what they could have been. Best known Red bosses are: George Siantos, wartime Secretary-General of Greece's Communist Party, whose mustache (which he carefully brilliantines) is as trim as ever, but whose political strength is dropping; and Niko Zakhariades, present Secretary-General, a Moscow-trained' veteran party organizer who once shot a man in an Athens square. (Zakhariades claimed that his victim was a Trotskyite, but since the Greeks were not then using the Moscow ground rules...
...that was what happened when trim, 40-year-old Ellen Irene Diggs, Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology at the University of Havana, registered at Rio's new, 2O-story Hotel Serrador. Dr. Diggs went off without fuss to another hotel. But when word of the Hotel Serrador's decision got around, she became quite a figure in the news and editorial pages of an angry Brazilian press. Cried Rio's Democracia: "In a land where race discrimination is not the concern of statesmen or a headache for sociologists ... an incident like this demands an explanation." Said...
...kept car building far below needs. If car builders got the steel they needed-and got production up enough-the pinch might be eased before it turned into a crisis. But, to make that possible, some industries, perhaps automaking, would have to lose some of their steel and trim production...
Last week travelers could carry, in one trim volume, much of the best work of a prodigious literary traveler-the proud, pawky Irish genius whose explorations often needed a map to follow. This week (he latest map was also provided, in a new book-length study of James Joyce's famous Ulysses...