Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctored & Fabricated. Would Lippmann's view impair Congress' ancient and valuable right of investigation? Not necessarily. Congress has a right to inquire into how well its laws are enforced and to loosen or tighten laws if it finds enforcement unsatisfactory. But Congress has no right to encourage-as McCarthy has encouraged-violations of law and loyalty on the part of officers and employees of the Executive branch. It has no right to set up a network of spies in the Executive branch, demoralizing it and creating a situation where the Secretary of the Army, for example, cannot function...
...these revisions in the organization and quota system are the major advantages of the new bill, numerous other provisions add to its merit. Especially needed are alterations in its present blunderbuss security provisions that trap innocent visitors and ship crewmen in the confusion of intricate safeguards. The bill would tighten regulations against the possible entrance of actual subversives while removing the unnecessary and complicated security checks. In addition, many passages of the McCarran Act are reworded to eliminate harsh, ambiguous, and inconsistent standards...
...individual had dominated the scoring, the Crimson might have been able to tighten its defense sufficiently. But five of the visitors--one at each position--hit double figures...
Norm Shepard's squad opened the meet with a 69 to 49 victory over Amberst. After jumping to a 15 to 6 lead at the quarter, the varsity slipped, and the jells were able to tighten the gap to 43 to 39 in the third period...
What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...