Word: taut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operated with Rear Admiral "Tip" Merrill's cruiser Task Force 39. Typically, Burke first set about building morale, christening DesRon 23 the "Little Beavers" after a comic-strip character, and making a deal with Merrill's well-stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when one of his destroyers strayed out of formation. Over his TBS (Talk Between Ships) radio, Burke snapped to the offending skipper: "Mister, that's a destroyer...
Khrushchev noticed something going on, asked the interpreter to tell him what Brown had said to his son. When he understood, Khrushchev flushed and said: "Interference in family affairs is even worse than interference in another country's internal affairs." Abruptly, the pleasant little dinner became taut with strain...
...heard on NBC); some depend on horse sense (in the past year the word "hell" has been approved on ten shows, the word "damn" on seven shows, but the expression "God damn" went over the network unapproved when Actor Lloyd Bridges' emotions got out of hand during a taut moment in Reginald Rose's Temporary Town...
Robert Montgomery scored with a taut production of Robert Wallace's The Long Way Home, starring John Beal as a Connecticut commuter stricken with a heart attack as his train pulls out of Grand Central Terminal. What gripped the viewer, as it did the readers of the original LIFE story, was Real's it-could-happen-to-you helplessness at the hands of strangers: the well-intentioned conductor who let him off the train at a deserted station where he faced a seemingly endless climb to reach the street, a calloused cop who thought that Beal was drunk...
...college junior Oliver has hired to be the boy's teacher-companion. Jeff is bronzed and amiable with crew-cut good looks. Pretty soon he is lying awake nights "remembering the sound your dress made as you brushed past," while Lucy daydreams about Jeff's taut white T shirts...