Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only when Murphy began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
...half-crazed Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses and hunted down young Communists like Ugo to tighten their political stranglehold...
...CRIMSON feared that the report of the Educational Policies Commission would tighten the squeeze on free inquiry in education. We now hope that the Corporation's stand will convince educators and legislators that a university, as the world has known it, is not a collection of timid souls vaccinated by jumpy men like Mr. Ober against ideo-logical disease. A university is a home for men free to grapple with an heretical germ and strong enough to resist the forces of fear and hysteria...
Recently in TIME . . . and other publications I have seen increasing use of "recession," "slump" and "depression" regarding our present business situation. It seems to me that by using these terms we are talking ourselves into a good, all-out depression. This sort of talk scares customers . . . They tighten up their purse strings and wait for more price cuts. Businessmen begin to worry and slash payrolls needlessly. Pretty soon the scare builds up like a snowball going downhill...
...whenever it has a load. It had operated strictly within the letter of the law. Refurbished and approved in April by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Commando was actually flying 500 pounds under its gross weight limit, 45,000 pounds. In Puerto Rico last week, there was agitation to tighten up the regulations: obviously something was wrong when 116 lives were lost in two years...