Word: taut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hilt. Supercharged and sassy, he played croquet, guzzled fruit juice at a cocktail party thrown by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon (whom he irreverently called "Your Gryce" in a broad Cockney accent), stayed up twisting at a country dancehall until 2 a.m. On race morning, while other drivers, taut and nervous, brooded over seltzer and coffee, he happily downed a huge breakfast, described the novel furnishings he was planning for his bachelor digs in London: a heated toilet seat and a 300-lb. silver coffee table made from melted-down trophy cups ("What else can you do with silver...
...planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries, interviews and correspondence with U.S., German, and Rumanian survivors of the Aug. 1, 1943 raid...
Inner Bruises. If a fighter is alert and well coordinated and has his neck muscles taut and his chin tucked in, he can take many full-force punches to the head with relatively little risk of brain injury. Only rarely does an exceptionally powerful blow to the chin break or unhinge the lower jaw and drive bony structures back to damage the lower part of the brain...
...Five Pieces of String Quartet experiment with the tensions of silence. They are an exquisite exploration of the shades of restraint, a catalogue of delicate sonorities. In contrast to the Ginestera, every note comes necessarily, logically; Webern probed deeply, but quietly. The five short pieces alternate in mood from taut chattering to strained deliberation. Yet every note requires sensitivity, and in response the Quartet turned in its best job of the evening...
...flustered, Newshen McClendon named William Arthur Wieland and J. Clayton Miller-two State Department aides who, far from working in the sensitive Office of Security, hold routine administrative jobs in State's Office of Management. As Kennedy well knew, neither man had ever been considered a security risk. Taut with anger, he proceeded to tell Sarah McClendon just that. "I would say that the term you've used to describe them is a very strong term, which I would think that you should be prepared to substantiate." He hoped, added Kennedy, that the two men could perform their...