Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spanish nerves were still taut. After a late afternoon outburst of firing in Madrid, 12,000 retired army officers and an association of noblemen headed by the Viscount of Cubas stepped forward to offer their services to the Government. Snapped a potent Deputy: "This uncertainty, if it continues, will end in military dictatorship. The Government should take the most drastic steps...
...wind grew strong, tossing whitecaps on the bay as its increase filled the colored sails of the little boats. The final word was given, the lines cast off, and anchors weighed. The largest ship gained speed, as her new sails gave to the wind and filled. Lines drew taut, no longer came the tapping of loose roped upon slackened sails. The ripple in the harbor as the boats slid through the water widened as an arrow, and soon white foam frothed under the steep bows...
...this news hound journeyed past Gales Ferry where the Yale football team had taken over the crow headquarters for their own use, noted more activity than was usual in New England on the Lord's Day. Perhaps he heard the bark of signals; perhaps the thud of boot on taut pigskin; perhaps the creaking of the tackling dummy. In any event his curiosity was aroused and he started to investigate...
Witnesses for the bride were the French Army's taut, terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
...year was 1898; the month, December; the place, Paris. A woman with blue eyes and blonde hair, and a dark, bearded man worked in taut silence in a place described as a ''cross between a horse stable and a potato cellar.'' The walls were of rough planks; the glass roof, patched in places, leaked when it rained. There were three battered deal tables covered with apparatus, a few chairs, a pot-bellied stove. On the asphalt floor lay coarse mats...