Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Children. De Gaulle's high commissioner in Algeria, Christian Fouchet, still hesitated to use the Moslem "force locale" to patrol European-populated cities (except for one battalion in Oran) for fear of worsening the racial strife. But from his fortified headquarters at Le Rocher Noir, he clamped a tighter curfew on Algiers, promised new tough measures, and hinted that he would ship home all French officials sabotaging the Algerian administration by go-slow tactics...
...remarkable facility with words. What is new in Pigeon Feathers is a more intense discipline than he has shown before. Gone are the pages of minuitae which continually threatened to bury and bore readers of his second novel, Rabbit, Run His latest short stories are cleaner, tighter, and more skilfully constructed than anything he has ever done before...
...Blues. Asked how Yale's 3,910 underclassmen would view girls at the gates, one senior replied crisply: "I think they would be ecstatic." Yale girls will have to be formidable students. Last week's report also urged tighter admission standards to make Yale more than ever a place where the best brains prepare for graduate training and professional-particularly academic-careers. Said the report: "Candidates whose records show exceptionally high promise of continuing intellectual achievement should be sought out and admitted without regard for any other criteria save those indicative of emotional maturity and good character...
...iron rule grew tighter. Resistance among Roman Catholics, among middle-class professional people, among the military stiffened against him. Per&243;n sent mobs of his descamisados to burn the high-toned Jockey Club, the Radical and Socialist Party headquarters, nine Roman Catholic churches. Fed up at last, the military rose against him in September 1955. When it seemed that a navy cruiser might fire on Buenos Aires, he fled aboard a Paraguayan gunboat...
There was frank animal hatred in the obsidian eyes. The harried champion felt it. He shuddered involuntarily and looked away. On his chest, rivulets of sweat sparkled in the harsh glare of naked lights. Patiently, coldly, the massive-shouldered challenger stalked his prey, drawing his circles tighter and tighter, until the champion was trapped against the ropes. A thudding left to the belly doubled up the champion. Another left to the head made him drop his gloves. The challenger swung his right...