Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain's Nazi-loving Dictator Francisco Franco took a tighter grip on his war-scarred country last week. Before El Caudillo in Madrid's El Prado Palace stood four Roman Catholic prelates, the Bishops of Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Jaén and Salamanca. They were there to do what none of their predecessors had done since medieval days: take an oath of fealty to the head of the Spanish State...
...fighting men was illustrated last summer when General MacArthur had to take time off from strictly military duties to work out a plan with Prime Minister Curtin allowing Aussies to buy cigarets in U.S. post exchanges. Result: long lines of Diggers at PX doors three times daily, a tighter supply for U.S. troops, and bitter words. Today the situation is smoother and U.S. soldiers get a pack...
...Johnes remembered, "were about halfway down the steps when everybody up front stopped. People kept moving forward behind us. I didn't see the fall of the woman with the baby. . . . Some of us men shouted for them to move on down below, but we all got packed tighter and tighter...
...disintegration of Germany's southern positions and communications proceeded: the Russians retook the important railway center of Kamensk, Voronezh and pressed on Voroshilovgrad, advanced from north and south toward the German's pinion position at Rostov. The fall of Salsk and Armavir gave the Red Army a tighter hold upon the railways of the Caucasus, increased the prospect that the retiring Axis forces there can only retreat across the Black Sea into the Crimea. Ever nearer was a Russian thrust into the Germans' Kharkov line...
...grew rougher, Lieut. Commander Noah Adair, the Angry's captain, pulled his weatherproof hood tighter over his red thatch, drew the voluminous coat closer around his tall, lanky frame. The bridge, where he stood swaying with the ship's roll, was open to rain, wind and spray, except for a strip of canvas lashed to the rail and another strip overhead...