Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party rules to be submitted to the Congress reveal no major shakeup, but nevertheless contain some interesting changes (see below). They suggest that Stalin is trying to tidy and tighten up the party, possibly to avoid, for a hand-picked successor, the murderous party strife which surrounded his own successsion to Lenin, thus perpetuate his power beyond death...
Party membership has more than doubled (2,500,000 in 1941 to 6,000,000 today), many of the new members being politically "soft" or "unreliable." Many parts of the mechanism have clashed with others or lost their original function. The new party rules seemed designed to 1) tighten party discipline and 2) make the machine run more smoothly by junking some unnecessary parts...
...Dennis Gray, he describes a schoolboy's shock to a first confrontment with homosexuality and abnormal punishment. Dennis Gray, a student in a small prep school, is a finely-drawn character, whose nerves tighten at every small crisis. The tremendous tension created in a single afternoon snaps his recuperative mechanism so that he must build it all over again. Stewart's style in this piece is especially interesting, since he changes it sharply at the climax, switching from a rambling impressionistic picture to sharp realistic prose. This method is well meant, but I think it tends to weaken the story...
...price level; if the government had told industry what could be expected from the price office, as Wilson tried to do, and had kept to its decision, as Truman failed to do, there might well have been a speedy agreement. As it was, Truman decided to tighten up on prices in the midst of negotiations. The inevitable breakdown occurred, forcing him to seize the mills and so precipitate a political storm which now threatens the whole Defense Production...
...then find no tenants at the rents they would have to charge. House builders have another problem. They blame the slackened demand on Regulation X (they call it "Regulation Ax"), which requires down payments of 4% to 50%, and on a shortage of mortgage money. It. began to tighten up when Government bonds were unpegged a year ago, and interest rates started rising...