Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taut, 43-year-old Vito Marcantonio was born in the congressional district he lives in and represents. To its gunmen, madams, policy and dope peddlers, he is "The Hon. Fritto Misto" (Mixed Fry), the man who began as a Republican with the blessing of East Harlem's Fiorello LaGuardia, the man who ladles out jobs, pocket money, speeches-anything for votes...
...wish ... is an understanding between East and West. . . ." All present removed their hats. The executioner tightened the noose. A chaplain standing beside him prayed. The assistant executioner pulled the lever, the trap dropped open with a rumbling noise, and Ribbentrop's hooded figure disappeared. The rope was suddenly taut, and swung back & forth, creaking audibly...
...flightiness, 172 of the nation's best golfers teed off last week on Cleveland's Canterbury Club course, in the first Open since 1941. The old hands had brought along some liquid companionship for locker-room nerves. The new school of war-born par-smashers caught the taut feeling too, though most of them did not smoke, much less drink. The standard cure was Bromo-Seltzer; in advanced stages phenobarbital...
Thanks to the practiced hand of Hollywood Oldtimer Joe Mankiewicz, who directed and co-authored the screen play, Somewhere in the Night is a taut, tidy package of suspense. But what 20th Century-Fox publicists are excited about is screen newcomer Nancy Guild, who looks, talks and acts a bit too much like the same studio's Gene Tierney for her own good. Nancy was a University of Arizona coed until LIFE recently printed some photographs of her modeling college-girl fashions. Darryl Zanuck took one look, issued the necessary ringing proclamation; a new leading lady was born...
...bodied, grim-faced men sat in their green-walled hotel suites in Washington and listened as the President rawhided them over the radio. Alexander Fell Whitney's lips were taut, his eyes were on the ceiling. He said not one word. Alvanley Johnston grunted only once, mumbling "Yes, sir," when Harry Truman held himself up as "a friend of labor...