Word: compacter
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...Incident often suggests the perfect minor work it might have been. Its compact story naturally fits the screen, and it is squarely in Hollywood's open-air action tradition. So much of the picture is so good that its occasionally thoughtless details are magnified. Worst example: instead of using an ordinary tree for the lynching, the picture introduces a dramatized, super-real contraption drenched beyond recognition in Little Theater lighting...
Another Wadi. The Wadi el Akarit was the strong natural position at which Rommel chose to challenge the Eighth Army's passage through the Gabes bottleneck (see map). The position was compact-only about twelve miles across. It consisted of the shallow gully of the Wadi itself and, behind it, two hills called Djebel Fatnassa and Djebel Roumana, 800 and 400 feet high respectively...
...would like you now to try to convince our American friends that if they were obliged, for strategical reasons, to make a compact with the devil, this operation might later prove as disastrous as it may at first have appeared fruitful. The key which opened for them the doors of Algiers will not open metropolitan France...
...more I drink better I feel, neither does it make me drunk, when a Boy a horn of Beer before Breakfast was the foundation for the day." Of such plums, and many a pebbly fact and figure, Mass-Observation's report on Bolton's pubs is compact...
...transport, the Army has a more compact unit which can be carried in three small cases and is mercifully speedy in use: determinations usually take about 40 seconds...