Word: tautly
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...Pacemaker) wrings a good deal of bang-up drama from a spy plot in which enemy agents conspire to blow up England's strategic power plants. The picture is a solo effort of Britain's talented Director Roy Boulting, who, with his twin brother John, made the taut 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon, about a demented atom scientist's attempt to destroy London...
...South African government, harassed by taut racial tensions, is as sensitive as a naked nerve to everything that affects South Africa, including what its people read. The Malan government has clamped a constantly tightening censorship on imported publications...
...some of the sedate stiffness of the tour. A world-traveled navy veteran, five years older than his wife, Philip was completely relaxed and took the acclaim in stride. His whispered asides helped ease Elizabeth's nervousness, sometimes brought a spontaneous smile to the Princess' face at taut moments. Philip's warm interest in the people and sights made him a solid hit with the crowds along the Canadian tour route. U.S. correspondents who traveled with the royal train fully expected that the handsome duke would also shine in Washington. Said one: "Philip could run for Congress...
...Asch Express pulled out of Prague's Woodrow Wilson Station at 9:55 one morning last week, Conductor August Beb. his paunch taut but official in his brass-buttoned uniform, walked slowly through the train to see that all was in order. His train was not a big one: a baggage car and three coaches with 100-odd passengers. And there were two baskets of fruit he was supposed to deliver at the Asch station. For a veteran Communist who had spent years studying Marxism, the run was not much to look forward to. Beb often complained to friends...
...series of taut opening scenes sets the spirit of the piece: leering and wriggling, the streetwalker lures her men one by one to a corner where her hoodlum accomplices beat and rob them. It is easy until the mandarin enters: he has to be thrashed, stabbed, choked and finally hanged before he can be made to die. That moves even the streetwalker. Too late, she realizes what the power of passion can be, throws herself on the mandarin's still body in almost necrophilic abandon...