Word: tightens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bonn government announced that it would tighten the Civil Code to deter future Hedlers. An official move got under way to try Hedler again in a denazification court. "Good Germans" like Knoeringen and Inge Scholl would have to do the rest...
...repay the Treasury for these concessions, Secretary John Snyder wanted to tighten up the special allowances enjoyed by mine producers and oilmen, to start taxing religious, educational and charitable institutions for any income earned from operating their own businesses on the side, and to tack on $1,075,000,000 more in new estate, gift and corporation taxes...
...Tighten Your Belts. The British Labor Party has carried out a high proportion of the promises it made in 1945; yet many of its 1945 followers feel let down. These disillusioned Laborites are the Tory hope...
...aged schoolteacher who grew up in a working-class home. In the 1945 election, Sewell voted Labor. This year he will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...
...State Department said stiffly that the meetings were primarily intended to tighten up U.S. diplomatic techniques. But some thought that they might foreshadow changes in U.S. policy, especially the "recognize-and-deplore" formula, which often works against the interests of democratic forces in the Americas (TIME...