Word: tightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the current worry over the state of the economy can be crystallized into a single concern: Will the consumer keep on buying, or will he succumb to the notes of pessimism and tighten up his purse strings? By the healthy ring of the nation's cash registers last week, it was clear that the consumer has not suffered any recession jitters. The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the previous week jumped 7% above the 1956 level, and that for the month ending in mid-February, sales increased...
...Generation. World War II cut the supply of rich vacationers, forced the Badrutts to tighten up; the Kulm was sold to Swiss Businessman Albert Ernst. But the Palace is still run by Hans's widow Helen, and two sons, Andrea and Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles...
...Angeles County General Hospital, Dr. Kegel has developed an answer to that problem: a device (approved by the A.M.A.) called the Perineometer. Essentially a pressure-registering gauge, it consists of a compressible part inserted in the vagina, and a dial. Dr. Kegel tells the patient being tested to tighten her muscles. If the needle registers above 20 or 25 (the millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus is healthy; if the reading is no higher than five, the muscle is in poor shape. With the Perineometer Dr. Kegel's patients practice pubococcygeal contractions and note...
Then, under its youthful-looking new President Duncan Ballantine, Reed ran into a crisis. In trying to tighten his administration, Ballantine so antagonized faculty and students that he finally had to resign (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). At that point, Reed desperately asked Griff to come back and take over...
...soon turned out that Carmichael and Alabama had different ideas about what the university should be. While Carmichael tried to tighten academic standards, he refused to share the concern of some alumni over the fact that 'Bama's oncegreat football team has won only two games in the last 23. To many old grads he became the original longhair. But even worse: he broadly hinted that the university might one day have to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation...