Word: tautness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Molotov addressed the conference, not one listener in a hundred understood his emphatic Russian. But they satin taut quiet, waited anxiously for weary Mr. Pavlov's translation. It told them much...
...Russians felt that Britain and France, the guiding powers of pre-1939 Europe, had botched their job. Russia now proposed to do better; in taut quiet, waited anxiously for weary Mr. Pavlov's translation. It told them much...
...nearly midnight in London. Sentry-boxed Downing Street lay quiet save for the tramp of guards. Inside No. 10 a taut secretary hurried to the Prime Minister's door, knocked impatiently, turned the glass knob. Winston Churchill stood beside his desk, reading a sheaf of reports. The secretary handed him a note. "Sir," he quavered, "President Roosevelt died a short time ago." The Prime Minister's face paled. He sat down, motionless for five full minutes. Then he lifted his head, with the heaviness of a man who is suddenly very lonely. He whispered: "Get me the Palace...
Then, as nearly every accredited correspondent in the capital crowded into the White House press room, it was Steve Early who climbed up on a leather chair, and in an even, taut voice gave the press a chronology of the President's last hours...
Some soldiers crossed on foot bridges. The night before, engineer patrols had sneaked steel cables across the river, and these had remained slack, submerged and undetected during the day. Now they were pulled taut, out of the water, and swaying foot bridges were strung across in a matter of minutes...