Word: tighteners
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...Tighten Your Belts. The British Labor Party has carried out a high proportion of the promises it made in 1945; yet many of its 1945 followers feel let down. These disillusioned Laborites are the Tory hope...
...aged schoolteacher who grew up in a working-class home. In the 1945 election, Sewell voted Labor. This year he will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...
...State Department said stiffly that the meetings were primarily intended to tighten up U.S. diplomatic techniques. But some thought that they might foreshadow changes in U.S. policy, especially the "recognize-and-deplore" formula, which often works against the interests of democratic forces in the Americas (TIME...
...rate of $5.5 billion a year. Too many houses are being built on too slim security, said he, and the new corporation pension plans, which he flatly called "a big mistake," will keep prices high. He thought that the time had come for FRB to tighten up on credit and thus discourage inflationary borrowing...
...Bellboys, with five backfield injuries, clicked a few times but were not inspired. They managed to tighten their defense in the secondly, but by then it was too late...