Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clerks packed up documents for the return. Lights burned late as administrators wrestled with the problems of transport and relief, and with the larger problem of adjusting a nation to a new era. At the top of the pyramid of state moved the alert, taut, indefatigable Generalissimo, the first architect of victory and now the first hope of peace...
Truman told them to hurry. Byrnes, pleased and excited, almost ran through the lobby and into the President's office. Half an hour later, when they left, Forrestal was taut and hopeful. The reporters, he said, ought to have something within 30 minutes. Forrestal was wrong...
There Laval was assigned to a 7 ft.-by-12 ft. cell, with an iron bed he would have to make himself. When officials sealed his luggage, the prisoner lost his taut composure, wept...
...Many a railman is convinced that the wisest thing to do is to furlough railroaders from the Army. Unless that happens, the railroads are keeping their fingers crossed. At best, they expect the present squeeze on civilians to last until next spring. At worst, they wonder if the wire-taut rail system will stand another winter like last year...
Triumph has all of the virtues and some of the faults of Corwin's craftsmanship. It uses contrast effectively (a taut-voiced announcer says, The voice you hear will be that of the Conqueror: the man of the hour, the man of the year, of the past ten years and the next twenty-and a hesitant, uncertain G.I. voice speaks up). Corwin's text likewise relies on sharply contrasted images...