Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tories are appealing not to the Briton's traditional ability to tighten his belt, but-and profoundly-to his sense of human and national greatness...
...Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV), another big-budget TV drama, concentrates on top Hollywood & Broadway names. So far, the star system has backfired: the talents of Helen Hayes and David Niven were wasted in a soggy romance called Not a Chance, while Cinemactor John Payne had only to tighten his jaw muscles menacingly as the Government agent in The Name Is Bellingham, a routine thriller about dope smugglers. But Bellingham was noteworthy for imaginative camerawork, some nice atmosphere touches, and the repeated scene-stealing of minor Actor Guy Thomajon as a devious Chinese businessman...
...between the Crimson scored more-and refused to fold. At halftime, after the Cadets had drawn to within one point (15 to 14) on the last play of the second period. Coach Lloyd Jordan sensed victory in the offing and told the varsity that if it didn't tighten up, it would win. And loose it stayed...
Something to Shout About. As for cheating, it is also apparently universal. Yale, troubled by the manners, rudeness and "easy moral standards" of some students, felt forced to issue a warning that it was about to "tighten up." Other colleges and universities already had their own tight controls...
...would take some stirring. The banking committees of both houses had held six weeks of hearings, heard more than a hundred witnesses, and had barely gotten down to writing a bill. They showed little sympathy for the President's request for authority to stiffen rent controls and to tighten credit. Likeliest action: a last-minute 30-to-60-day extension of the present...