Word: tauter
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...surprisingly, the sentences soon lose their short-story-class sterility, and become tauter and fresher. Before long, Price is writing his own wry, amusing novel, and doing it well. Rosacoke is a likable, skillfully drawn character-young and gangly-pretty, bright enough to see the sour humor in being, as she is, a good girl...
...jowls may be thickening a bit and her slacks may have become a mite tauter than they need be, but she is still the serpent of denial. "I stop being queen at home," she has purred. "At home, my husband takes over as King Tut." Or perhaps as King...
Personal Touch. The commander who drilled the Fifth is no martinet. He drove himself, as well as his troops, hard. But in a relaxed sort of way. He does not stomp or rage-or even smoke to ease his nerves. The tauter Mark Clark feels, the quieter he usually becomes. But what he says then in his resonant voice may have a steely edge, and his long legs may take longer, caged-lion strides. He does not have General Patton's histrionic flair, or General Eisenhower's command of expletives. Yet he can let off steam with...
...Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then-"Go!" At that signal the sailplane was snapped free of its anchorage, sailed out from the brow of the hill like a stone from a boy's slingshot. Headed into the teeth of a 30 m. p. h. wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than...