Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was as barren of endearments as the salutation. Shigeru Yoshida's Government, it said, had better take prompt steps to tighten Japan's economy and wipe out its black markets, or it could expect no help from the Allies...
Somewhat inadequate to date is the teamwork of Preston and Greeley, the new starting defense. Both excellent skaters individually, they were sometimes split by Holy Cross and the B.A.A. Unicorns to allow occasional solo jaunts goalward. Should this due tighten up tomorrow, the Big Green may find themselves hard pressed...
...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...