Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, reports Lewis, the President had been defending his Viet Nam policies by repeating what Lincoln once said to a group of critics during the Civil War. Likening himself to a French acrobat named Blondin who was famed for crossing Niagara Falls on a tight rope, Lincoln asked: "Suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had to put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across Niagara. Would you shake the cable, or-keep shouting at him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter - Blondin, stoop a little more - lean a little more...
...splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered cultivated if he had not gone out to engage the art, philosophy and manners of the Latin countries." Housebound in their in creasingly tight little island, the English, with a curtailed foreign-travel allowance, could afford perhaps the book, but hardly the travel...
Operating on a tight budget, the Corporation has still been able to hire a first rate firm, Architects' Collaborative, to draw up the project's design. The Corporation is also pushing to get City Hall to declare City Stables the site of an Urban Renewal Project. If the site can't be purchased under the Urban Renewal program, rent for the housing will have to jump $15 per month...
Glimp said yesterday that he had refused primarily because his schedule until Christmas is tight. "It's been a pretty busy time since October 25" [the date of the Dow demonstration], he added...
...these will bring a "sharp break with the weaknesses of the past." The British learned a little bit more last week about just how much they will be asked to sacrifice. Partly in order to get a $1.4 billion credit from the International Monetary Fund, Britain vowed to continue tight wage controls, promised to make heavy cuts in its budget and to take any further steps necessary to reverse its balance-of-payments deficit...