Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only rapid, bulk transportation can save hundreds of thousands from death. Transport is not available in the quantities needed. But, despite, the unavoidable handicaps, the Chungking Government can tighten administrative measures, drive out hoarders, eliminate the corruption which impedes relief efforts...
This was it. The correspondents felt themselves tighten up. The General was not smiling now; his icy blue eyes moved from one to another of the reporters. None of them had expected the top Allied commander to take them so intimately, so significantly into his confidence. The General warned them that they must not talk...
...Courage Has Bread." By his exhortations, his purges, and by caging the most dangerous of his defectionists, Mussolini has used the threat of invasion to tighten his control over Italy. But despite an apparently growing attitude of rebellion against German domination, he has failed to regain the prestige he once held among those who thought he was un jurbo (an astute fellow), or among the trusting who believed that, regardless of his Party's corruption, Mussolini had the best interests of his people at heart. One story indicated the Italian's cynicism: The Duce was not satisfied with...
...crew, officers, and an attached coast guard cutter ... An armed guard crew was picked up floating into port with partial pay cards .. After their latest Ready, Aim, Fire, Abandon Ship episode ... He started spreading his specimens in the gangways and tacking them on the bulkheads ... Ensign Drawers began to tighten up ... He had to pull through ... After all he had to make the next American Legion if he wanted to run for Congress...
...carry it through the war point to its basic weaknesses. Course credit for tutorial now enables men to take it who otherwise could not, and it encourages more thorough work. It was a necessary step, for the war. But after the war the problem will remain of how to tighten and crisp tutorial, and make it for all students the stimulating experience it has been for some...