Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspire the audience to work for disarmament. As a device for solidifying a group music, particularly folk music, is matchless. But it is best used for sustaining a mood of focussed activism; rarely, if ever, can music by itself ignite such a mood. On picket lines, song kept emotions taut; but hatred of management--and desire to unionize--was present long before the strikers learned their union songs...
...Force brigadier general), sometimes writes tart notes to erring constituents. She shuns the Washington social whirl, lives quietly in a three-apartment building in suburban Silver Spring, Md. The other apartments are occupied by Bill Lewis, her ubiquitous administrative assistant, and his parents. Her office is run with taut efficiency, and every letter is answered by return, mail. One fetish: her insistence on maintaining a near-perfect record of voting on every Senate measure, however trivial. The record to date: 908 roll calls...
...weirdly garbed figure was alone in the tiny cabin, strapped tightly to a padded, sculptured couch. A low roar filtered through his bulbous plastic helmet; he tensed involuntarily as the couch began to vibrate violently. Seconds later, he was moving-at first sluggishly, then with breathtaking speed. For three taut hours, as sweating scientists clustered around tracking screens and feverishly processed telemetry data, Radio Moscow disinterestedly played ballet music. Then a sudden silence and the curt, dramatic announcement: "The Soviet Union has successfully placed a satellite into orbit around the earth. There is a man aboard...
...Admiral Bernhard Rogge-was so humane to his prisoners that some of them still correspond with him.) Eventually, the Atlantis is caught and sent to the bottom. The film, for all of Laughton's inspired snorting and Heflin's underplayed "Fire one . . . Fire two," is not as taut a ship as it should be. The reason may be that Director Duilio Coletti has paid too much attention to civilian foolishness, notably that of Prisoner Mylene Demongeot, a blonde who billows like the ocean and is so amply constructed that she cannot fasten her life jacket...
...board that specializes in finding "controversial" anything which it disapproves of. The board's right-wing majority has denounced the U.N. as unAmerican, banned standard textbooks as "anti-capitalistic," fired teachers on shaky charges of being "leftish." In this crusade, no one has been more energetic than tiny, taut Bertie Maughmer, 44, wife of Police Lieutenant Earl Maughmer Jr. Last week, as an eerie footnote to the proceedings, Board Member Maughmer was under a charge of assault to murder. The man she is accused of trying to kill: Policeman Maughmer...