Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work, as the taut indifference of the strip-builders indicated, was urgent. How urgent was further pointed up this week by a Navy announcement that U.S. naval vessels had intercepted two escorted cargo ships headed for the Aleutians. The two merchantmen were not particularly significant. Their escort was. It consisted of no less than four cruisers and four destroyers. Such an inordinately heavy shield suggested that the Japs wanted to be sure those ships got through...
There's enough tense action in this British film to keep anyone's fists clenched and at the same time there's no Errol Flynn or take heroism. Add excellent, tight acting and real dialogue, and the result is a perfect war picture. It's the taut story of one English bomber crew, forced down over Holland, and its eventual escape with the aid of Dutch civilians. With little of the shooting and grunting of Errol's "Dangerous Journey", it is stronger on the human side, and that makes it a distinguished movie...
...these the Army is proud. But it is proudest of its OCS graduates. It was on its enlisted soldiers, volunteers and draftees that the growing Army had to lean for its supply of younger officers. The success of the taut training they absorbed can be proved to old soldiers by their progress. One is already a lieutenant colonel, seven are majors, 397 are captains...
...depression? The men who asked this question were not the smart Wall Street traders who try to hedge the future by switching into peacetime equities. They were the industrialists, great & small, who at year's end were employing and were responsible for more men and women on their taut production lines than at any time before in history...
Perhaps the toughest trainer in the U.S. Army is a wiry little man who carries a full pack and a rifle while marching his troops across stony Oregon desert and who expects his middle-aged staff officers to be as taut-bellied as the hardiest young private. Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt breaks in new men "gently" by sleeping them in pup tents in the rain, making them swim icy Oregon rivers...