Word: trimming
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...then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From the light-cruiser division (eight strong, four abreast, led by the Detroit), then from the destroyer divisions (26 strong, four abreast, led by the cruiser Concord), then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong, in three columns, led by the Texas),* finally...
...diffidence would quickly drop when he looked about the chamber to recognize a host of old friends and comrades-in-arms. The first to make him welcome would naturally be Alexander Hamilton Stephens from Georgia, his colleague in the House, his Vice President in the Confederacy. General Lee, trim and spruce as he was in life, would have a courteous greeting for his commander-in-chief...
...works hard, keeps in trim, can walk on his hands. In Los Angeles last summer he was arrested for reckless driving. Next day he was arrested again because he still felt so jolly that he had stood outside a café and squirted a hose on the café manager's automobile and on passersby. Tall, lean, industrious, he is seldom so jolly as that, though last week he was to be seen in Manhattan full of great cheers over a new M-G-M cinema contract, and his employers' extravagant advertising...
...played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played in too close. Racehorse Russell Saunders twitched the ball to Edelson for one score, Arbelbide fell on a fumble that brought in another. Wild Pitt plunges and passes...
...months ago Mrs. Fleming, with her sister and brother-in-law, moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...