Word: tightens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nazis because they will hate Britain and America. This may be putting it too strongly, it is true. There is plenty of evidence of chafing under tyranny, of hope for liberation and triumph for democracy. There is idealism left in the conquered people no matter how much they tighten their belts. But there are also the "realists" who say that it's better to play ball with Hitler than starve. The pro-shipment line of argument is given point by Darlan's threat of convoy; a concern for his people and a ticklish situation forced him into this action...
...basketball and hockey are already gone, and other major and minor sports may soon be lopped off in the budget-balancing campaign. The H.A.A. has no choice; it must tighten its belt or get caught with its pants down. Alumni donations to the Endowment Fund are dribbling in pretty slowly. A play-for-pay football team would mop up the red ink in the ledger, but there's more chance of John Harvard's statue crawling under its pedestal than of this means being adopted. Last night's Crimson Network seminar of Harvard and B.C. footballers, though, came through with...
...last autumn, made the Chinese fearful of being cut off from every source of military supplies except Russia. Consequently steps were taken to increase the flow by other routes. Smuggling was increased all along the South China coast-until fortnight ago the Japanese Navy announced it had had to tighten its blockade...
...made. Nelson is understood to have agreed to a salary of $5,000, right in line with Yale's recent decision to slash the athletic budget wherever possible. Yale's grid gate receipts were $100,000 below expectations this fall, making it necessary for Ogden Miller to tighten the Blue athletic belt without giving up big-time football...
Charles Edison was never very happy either as Assistant Secretary or Secretary of the Navy. Mountains of paper work vexed and baffled him. So, occasionally, did admirals who were his nominal subordinates. They buffeted him from stem to stern when he proposed to tighten the Navy's loose organization, bucked like destroyers in a gale when he partially reorganized the shore bureaus to handle the enormous construction job now under way. And they practically keelhauled him (unofficially) when he came back from inspecting the Pacific Fleet last spring with word that "aircraft have a temporary advantage over ships...