Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the South must draw the color line tighter & tighter...
...Tougher, Tighter. Boeschenstein, after five months in his paper-cutting post, had served notice that he was running a tougher and tighter Printing and Publishing Division...
Battle on Bluff. In the mixup Howard hauled out every trick in the book, among them "chopping the throttle" (to slow down abruptly) and dropping the flaps (to turn a tighter circle). He began with all four guns going, finally was reduced to one. He wound up his day, all ammunition spent, scaring off a rocket-carrying Dornier 217 by plain bluff, and then scooted for home...
...Source. Newsmen should not have been too greatly surprised. The Army's Bureau of Public Relations has been getting a tighter and tighter hold on press copy. One recent measure: a rule that no officer might talk to a reporter without BPR permission...
...Back in 1929 Lawyer Burchell helped draft the historic Statute of Westminster, which defined the British Dominions' status as free and sovereign nations, united only in common allegiance to the Crown. Now he was going to the home of a man who has been talking a new and tighter Commonwealth policy: Jan Christiaan Smuts...