Word: tautness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Searching Wind (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) gave Broadway its first really provocative drama of the season. Unlike Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, her The Searching Wind is not predominantly taut, violent, intense. Its span is long and its world spacious, though the action itself is too crowded at times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct...
Champion's Champion. Roy Brown's greatest moment came in the early morning of April 21, 1918. He had been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had strongly favored the veto. But many a White House adviser had argued even more strongly against it. When one of them pointed out that Congressional tempers were already nearly tantrum-taut, the President expressed doubt that there was any use trying to get along with Congress any longer...
Like his top superior, the U.S. Fleet's Commander in Chief Admiral Ernest J. King, he is impatient of failure, abrasive as a file. Men remember that the ships he ran were "taut" rather than "happy." His self-confidence approaches arrogance...
...Chief's subordinate officers had yet to be named in full. The known appointments heart-warmed every Briton: cocky, confident General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery will leave his Eighth Army to serve as chief of "the British group of armies" on the second front; the R.A.F.'s taut, smart Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will be Eisenhower's top air deputy (as he was in the Mediterranean...