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...pediatrics and . . . is derived from the past participle of the word expedire, that is, to let go of the foot. Now, here we are with our foot caught, as it were. We have a report of one Commission before us [Atomic Energy Commission], and now we want to just tighten up on the foot of that report and not let it go forward; whereas, the General Assembly has said to us, you are recommended to expedite, free the foot, hasten the progress of the cons, deration of the report...
...Economic and Financial Committee approved LaGuardia's plan rather than Acheson's. Naturally, Russia was one of the nine. "Food," cried Andrei Gromyko, must never be used by any nation "as a means of reaping political or other advantages." The U.S., he suggested, must tighten its belt...
Manager Conn Smythe, a man who has been known to walk out on the ice and personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...
...loss of consciousness. These operate automatically on the turns, keeping the pilots' blood from leaving their brains and concentrating in the lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your legs. The centrifugal forces of a 500-mile-an-hour turn increase your weight seven to ten times. You contract your stomach, breathe in gasps...
...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...