Word: trimming
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...summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines...
KING: How, madame-Russians? PRINCESS: Ay, in truth, my lord; trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. -Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost...
...demon of industry and the evils of an over-organized world. "Nowadays, there is an element of sadism in the very requirement that a man shall work. 'Now you shall feel it,' they say. 'Now you shall know what it feels like to break stones and trim flags.' " Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most...
Into Bradley's former post as executive vice president and finance chairman goes Frederic G. Donner, 54, a G.M. financial specialist since 1926. Michigander Donner (Michigan, '23) is a trim, conservative man with a passion for figures and a reputation for precision. Staff members call him an "animated slide rule," set their watches by his arrival at work (8:34 a.m.), respect his ability to shuffle three sets of figures at once without losing track. After all the changes, the top operating spot at G.M. was still firmly held by the same man: President Harlow H. Curtice...
...best-run towns in the U.S. is Midland, Mich., a trim, 50-year-old company town (pop. 24,000) where 86% of the houses are owned by employees of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. In the 1952 presidential election, Midland boasted the highest voter turnout (81%) of any similar-sized U.S. community...