Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rope strains, and the tug-of-war is begun. Mr. Nehru takes out a philosophy book to pass the time. At noon the contest is still fierce. Mr. Nehru is now standing on his head in contemplation. At length the sun casts its red rays over the scene. Taut, the golden roe shimmers in the sunset-taut until, suddenly, it snaps in twain. The handkerchief flutters to the ground. Both teams fall backward in confusion. Nehru turns on his feet to pronounce the decision...
Berlin was still taut. Refugees from East Germany continued their desperate attempts to scale the Wall and sprint to freedom. Shots were fired from both sides of the border. At the highest levels of diplomacy, talks toward negotiations had come to a standstill. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was back in Moscow after sessions with President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. At his press conference, the President reported somberly: "The talks which we had with Mr. Gromyko did not give us immediate hope that this matter would be easily settled...On the substance, we are not in sight...
While Director Andrzej Wajda creates several scenes that are both eloquent and taut (Szczuka's death in the arms of Maciek says all it has to say in three seconds), he is also extremely wasteful in his use of detail. It could further be observed that much of the genuinely sophisticated material and technique in this Polish film would be taken for extraneous artiness in an equivalent French or Italian production...
...with the others that were soon to follow, would help reestablish what Pentagonese labels "credibility"-meaning Communist belief that the U.S. has the weapons to fight, and the will to use them if need be. Last week the U.S. and its Western allies further advanced credibility with more taut, determined words on the Berlin crisis...
...Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given him the title...