Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
...looked up through the clogged air and saw faded crimson jerseys, 90 of them to be exact, stretched taut over shoulder pads and often just as taut over bulging stomachs...
...also knew that six weeks from now, while the jerseys might still be taut over the pads, the midriff sections would he flapping like empty spinnakers...
This morning, Nancy broke the spell. There was a vice presidency open at Charley's bank and everyone knew it lay between Charley and Roger Blakesley. The strain of waiting for President Anthony Burton to make up his mind had made Nancy taut. "Why don't you ask Burton what the score is?" she asked. "Aren't you tired of waiting...
...climbing up the ladder was blocked by another soldier. They wrestled at the hatch, lost their footing and thumped heavily to the ground. A C.N.A.C. ground crewman, a tall youngster in a black cap, screamed at the soldiers: "Stop! Stop! You are mad!" An angry red crawled up the taut vocal cords in his neck. "You are a disgrace, a disgrace to China!" Heedless, the soldiers stepped over their comrades still pummeling each other on the ground and jammed into the plane...