Word: trims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment, though it got Canada its first native-born Governor General (see HEMISPHERE), cost Canada the most popular Governor General (the 37th) it had ever had. A trim soldier with a cool head, imperturbable nerves and mild manner, Alexander fought around the globe in the last war. He was "last man off the beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun...
Sparked by former Crimson forward Jim Urdan, a Deacon drive to trim the Air R.O.T.C. lead in the final minutes failed. The flyers were led by forward Dave Cliff with 19 points...
...Bellows' best, Emma in a Purple Dress ranks high among U.S. portraits. Scanning his wife's trim ankles, high-piled dark hair and tapering fingers with an appreciative, penetrating eye, Bellows managed to give her face and figure the elegance and spirit of a Goya duchess, her simple low-waisted silk dress an air of perennial chic. It was the last portrait he ever did of his wife. In 1925, two years after he completed it, he died at 42, at the peak of his talent...
...could trim a tree with incredible arts...
...Look," said a U.N. correspondent, pointing from the window of a press train in Korea one day last week, "here comes our domesticated Communist." Out of a jeep, wearing a trim Eisenhower jacket, climbed burly Jakov Levi, 30, foreign editor of Belgrade's Borba, and first Red newsman accredited to the U.N. forces...