Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none knew better than Lord Wavell that India was no longer content to remain plunged in thought. All Asia was astir. If Britain wished to keep India in her Commonwealth, she could only hope to tighten the bonds of Empire by loosening them...
...book, set as if it were verse (and with all staging directions eliminated), Corwin adds many lines that the program had no time for, changes a few broadcasting bowdlerisms (bejeepers becomes beJesus). But what makes the scalp tighten when backed by sound effects and Bernard Herrmann's excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news...
Being also a housewife who has "given" a son to this war, I can well understand the shame . . . which required the withholding of the name of the housewife [who would not "tighten the belts of my other children to feed Europe"; TIME, April...
...American housewife. I have lost a son in this war. And I am not going to tighten the belts of my other children to feed Europe! I find my friends, club women, etc., feel the same...
...since Moses" reduced the weekly diet of every bacon-loving, tea-bibbing Briton to four and two ounces respectively, his sugar to eight ounces, meat to a shilling-and-tuppence worth (about 26?), fats to eight ounces, and milk to two and a half pints.* Woolton got Britons to tighten their belts and live with the notches permanently drawn in. To the Bill and Lizzie Smiths across the length & breadth of the British Isles the name Woolton stood for honest control without favoritism, or, in his own Lancashire idiom, for "a fair do all round...