Word: taut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weibel swiftly drew a vertical slash down the taut, iodine-painted belly. The flesh parted. The melon like womb protruded. Dr. Preissecker's camera whirred steadily. Dr. Weibel slashed open the womb, ran his hand under the child, lifted it out of its mother. The camera whirred, clicked, fluttered, stopped. Dr. Weibel looked at Dr. Preissecker. Dr. Preissecker fumbled with the camera. The film had broken. Dr. Preissecker tried to fix it, grew confused...
Swish! The body fell, jerked the rope taut. Then it spun a little, the toes of De Boe's shiny shoes poised a few inches above a puddle of water in the pit beneath the gallows...
...series of swift international shots showing Europe drawing an iron ring around Adolf Hitler. While the German Realmleader broods in his Bavarian hideaway, marching men in Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human...
...Jinxed against Yale for 50 years, Dartmouth was nonetheless favorite last week. With the score 7-to-2, Yale's defense suddenly grew taut when Dartmouth reached Yale's 13-yd. line. When the whistle blew it was still Yale 7, Dartmouth...
With tempers taut the Government staged a grand "proletarian demonstration of Revolutionary solidarity,'' sent all Government employes and a total of 200,000 Revolutionists prancing through the streets of Mexico City with catcalls for the church. Spectators beat up a policeman who tried to arrest a marcher for shouting "down with this farce of a parade! Give us bread and schools and work!" Meanwhile Government planes bombed the Capital with thousands of anti-Catholic propaganda posters, touting, among other things, the marriage of a famed ex-nun (see p. 62). "The time has come," proclaimed President-elect Lazaro...