Word: trims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest price the U.S. had ever paid for its security in peacetime-almost four times Franklin Roosevelt's entire first budget. But far from trying to trim it down, the U.S. House of Representatives last week added a few hundred millions of dollars to what President Truman had asked. Then with a heavy sense of urgency, some sane and some not-so-sane oratory, and a frank admission of helplessness, the House approved the record $15.9 billion defense bill...
Johnny Weissmuller, whose waist measurement outgrew his Tarzan role, was forced to keep in trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
...Abbot, a trim, slim, energetic 76, and ready to take on all doubters, this was conclusive proof of his theories. Instead of locking his 1949 predictions in the safe, he has published them. (He says that the Fourth of July will be relatively cool in Washington; Christmas Day will be warmish.) But the Weather Bureau professionals think they see loopholes in Abbot's defenses. To prove their point, they have turned his theory upside down. Taking his 55 dates in 1948, they have found that besides the warmer days in between, there were also cooler intervening days...
...Titoism presents a tremendous opportunity to the West, as well as a serious problem. How far can the West go in supporting Titoist regimes? It makes sense to support Tito just enough to keep him in fighting trim against Stalin. But if this policy were to be extended indiscriminately, the U.S. might soon find itself subsidizing Communist police states hostile to itself (e.g., Yugoslavia), without real assurance that they will remain hostile to Moscow. A case in point is China's Mao Tse-tung, who is currently being sold to the U.S. as the Tito of Asia by Authors...
...warned her boys against: he got mixed up with a woman. He married a skinny, hysterical divorcee named Jennie Wynne. One morning two weeks ago, Jennie took one of her spells and Lloyd begged off work to take care of her. She met him inside the door of their trim, white cottage and blasted his head half off with a 20-gauge shotgun. Last week Charlie Klein closed up the restaurant and some 50 people went out to Brighton for the funeral of the only one of Ma's boys who ever did an honest day's work...