Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please himself, Hopkinson does watercolors between portrait commissions. Last week Boston's Margaret Brown Gallery was exhibiting the landscapes he painted on a trip to New Zealand last year. The work of a lifelong sailor, his watercolors are sometimes as taut with motion as a sailboat in a stiff breeze...
Hensch tried the ropes, which were taut against the nine tons of cargo filling a ridiculously small part of the enormous interior. The two pilots went into the cockpit and started to warm up the engines. "They had a pretty good lunch in there today," said Baker to Hensch. "It was fish, but it was good." They had a little informal conversation with the control tower. (British pilots are still lost in wonder at the informality of U.S. communications. One British pilot walks around Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip...
...week when the telecom machines clattered almost incessantly. U.S.Russian relations had never been as taut. A hoped-for settlement of the conflict in Berlin vanished when talks between the military governors reached an impasse. Moscow, extending a conciliatory right hand, had signaled its agents to whip up new trouble...
Tired of their butchers' sympathetic tears, the nation's housewives put on a limited but bitter uprising last week. Month after month, penny after penny, the rising price of meat had stretched their nerves taut. Meat bills were 25% above last year's, 170% to 200% above 1939. Across the land, women began boycotting their butchers...
...Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion, that there was not even one absent-minded handclap from the 900 listeners...