Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together four bingles, a fielder's choice, and a double steal to account for two runs in the third inning and to all purposes won the ball game right there. Big Tom breezed along, mowing the Tigers down relentlessly, and the infield support behind him was just about air-tight...
...Affaires protested that the letter was a "gross forgery," and Argentine Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo made a conciliatory reply, although continuing to investigate. Most delighted were British and American traders who believed that the German genius for losing friends would weaken the Nazis' position in the tight, three-cornered fight for Argentine business...
...Czechoslovakia had pleaded for in vain. Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
...attempted to regulate human relations. It has also confounded scholars and professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...roundish, solid man in immaculate dark clothes, with fine tight features and bright brown eyes, George Grosz has more to say of his precise technical discipline than of his feelings. But last week he confessed to a fascination with horror tales and movies, tapped his round head solemnly as he declared: "Every survivor is a haunted house...