Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted to make him look like a skeleton...
Excited by the newborn alliance between classroom teachers and liberal professors, hotheads tried twice to wrest control of NEA's $800,000 permanent fund from NEA's tight-fisted Trustees, vest it in the Assembly of Delegates. "It's a matter of fair play," New York's small, grey-haired, pink-dressed Johanna Lindlof shrilled into a microphone. The Assembly, unimpressed, twice voted to keep its hands out of its own pocket. Mourned Johanna Lindlof: "The classroom teachers are just puppets and the double-crossing superintendents pull the strings...
...Willis, 78, of Palo Alto, who loves to scare the wits out of "seismophobic" Southern Californians, presented a picture of Earth's history and structure which disquieted many a long-range imagination. The Earth, Dr. Willis suggested, originally was an aggregation of cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles...
...Warsaw last week Premier Walery Slawek and the rest of that tight little clique known as the "Pilsudski Colonels" were still running Poland while newly omnipotent President Moscicki continued to accept the Army's advice as he always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland...
...Foreign Office permanent officials viewed Sir Sam with alarm. The new Foreign Secretary, so far as they know, has no views on foreign affairs, many on dancing at swank night clubs, tennis playing, and fancy figure skating, a pastime which he pursues in skin-tight black professional figure-skater costume not only at St. Moritz in winter but in London at all seasons on socialite Grosvenor House's rink...