Word: taut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yoke. A revolt by the younger generation of Germany against Reparations was predicted by Banker Mitchell. Senators sat at taut attention when he said: "These young people see that not only they but their progeny and their progeny's progeny must go on paying a debt for which they were not responsible. They feel they are under a heavy yoke and they are growing rebellious. It is something that is readily understandable. . . . I'm not preaching any doctrine of cancellation but I'm trying to develop some of the psychology of the people that may have...
Clamp-jawed George Sparks Milnor, head of U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp., sat at his desk in Chicago last week showing obvious signs of fatigue. His face was taut and tired, but his heavy-lidded eyes sparkled with satisfaction. For more than a fortnight his shoulders alone, Atlas-like, had steadfastly supported the price of wheat...
...Poincaré kissed the child. The unemotional old man stood still. His lips moved. His face was taut. He gestured faintly. There was a long moment of fragile silence. Gradually one realized that he, several army officers and many of the populace were in tears...
...Thomas F. Moran to pitch a cork aboard. Both boats, breaking out jib, baby jib, topsail and staysail, started on the homeward reach (wind close abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail, was leading by 1,000 yd. At 4:57 p. m. she crossed the finish line amid a din of whistles and an excited babble of radio announcers over two national networks. Shamrock V arrived 2 min. 52 sec. later...
...Vandalia, Ohio, three Ohio men and a Texas boy tied ahead of 962 other contestants, with 97 birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they...