Word: tightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...
URANIUM STOCK RUSH should be slowed down by new Securities & Exchange Commission rules. In a move to eliminate racketeers in penny stocks, the SEC will tighten its small-securities regulations by requiring brokers to give full details of all proposals, place a certain amount of stock-sale proceeds in escrow to insure that investment money will be used for legitimate business purposes...
...Credit will tighten as business and Government demands for money rise...
...incoming dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences asserted yesterday that he plans to tighten up entrance requirements for the School next year even if the move will mean a cut back in present enrollment numbers...
While the pattern of leadership which evolved in early New Deal days undoubtedly brought some measure of recovery, in Professor Robinson's view it also grievously ruptured the orderly traditional processes of U.S. democracy. To tighten his grip on the mass imagination, the President relied shamelessly on the "devil" theory of history. "Wall Street," "big businessmen," "reactionaries," "economic royalists" were tagged as villains. The logical legacy of the devil theory was the witch hunt. Professor Robinson implies that today's political " 'primitives' of limited intelligence," e.g., the McCarthyites, are the spawn of Roosevelt's intemperate...