Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year was ending, and it had been a Navy year. The tall, taut man who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) let his mind go back to the morning of Pearl Harbor, and observed that the Japanese probably had not expected their attack to be so successful. Said Admiral Ernest Joseph King: "If they had it to do over, I think you would probably find them moving in with a tremendous invasion force such as they brought against us at Midway...
Says she: "I had a good childhood . . . girlhood . . . virginhood. . . . The Long Island Sound under moonlight, the waves playing music against the shore . . . the taste of warm tomatoes eaten from the garden. . . . The bustle of Christmas, the taut joy of gifts . . . bare feet on wet dawn lawns...
...take off first, float about 50 ft. up, pointing their noses down to give the ropes some slack so that the plane can get off. Once in the air, like the yachtsman who watches the trembling sail lest it spill the wind, a glider pilot must keep his towline taut or suffer a jerk when it suddenly springs tight. Even in the air, an instructor makes a student keep his ship about 50 feet higher than the towplane to avoid its slipstream...
Chiang the soldier says very little to his men. He listens to their reports, their suggestions or their fears. Then, with a single grunted word, hao (good) or pu (no), he makes his decision. He is a stern disciplinarian, and keeps his army taut. When he visits the fronts, he blurts words of praise or of withering criticism on the spot, in public hearing...
...This was a life-sized nude that Mrs. Howard Willett, ex-wife of a Chicago trucking millionaire, commissioned the artist to do of her daughter and grandchild. Designed to occupy an outdoor niche at a country place, the figure is an ingenious arrangement of mother, without infant, balanced with taut buttocks and tender, inclining head against the weight of the invisible child...