Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, B. E. F. Commander Walter W. Waters urged his followers at Johnstown to go home, after Governor Ritchie had forbidden him to establish a colony in nearby Maryland. They rebelliously talked of "sitting tight" indefinitely...
...hundred miles north of the fighting, President Vargas sat as tight as he could in Rio de Janeiro, signed a decree pardoning Army deserters "on condition that they at once present themselves for service...
...charge of aviation. Associated with Henry Ford for 20 years, a close friend and adviser. Engineer Mayo said he plans a short vacation, will then devote himself to "engineering developments." During his work for the Ford Motor Co., Engineer Mayo, a keen-eyed man with big ears and tight lips, has been connected with almost every major development in the company, including the building of dams, ore carriers and the 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" airplane...
...baby bond" issue just as the U. S. was selling "baby bonds" to combat hoarding (TIME, March 7). Not selling many baby bonds, not exchanging all of its new 364-day Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week he pulled not one but four rabbits from his fecund hat. To his 250,000 security holders he offered $25,000,000 in first mortgage bonds of New Jersey Power & Light...
Earl shouted at him. Suddenly Sunshine turned on his keeper, hugged him tight with one foreleg, clawed him viciously with the other. Keeper Earl shouted for help, wrestled for his life. Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...