Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...
...Claude Wickard would do with their new powers (see below), only time would tell. To some Administration critics, it seemed ironic that the men under whom manpower and food situations had steadily worsened, should now emerge as the czars. But the new setup, if not perfect, was far tighter and better than anything tried before in World War II. Much of the divided authority which had kept Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard busy debating instead of working was now clearly and finally determined. How well they would do the job was now, for the first time, up to them...
...women in chains. One day Grandmother Seabrook had shown him "a throne on which a girl sat, robed in green . . . her ankles bound by shining metal circlets joined by a gleaming chain." Young Seabrook pressed his hands against her ankles "until my own hands held and drew the chains tighter." From that time on, William had two ambitions-to be a writer like his grandfather (editor of the American Sentinel) and to chain women. As a boy he lassoed little girls. As a man he spent his earnings on complicated gold and silver chains with which he fastened women...
Polish Miod. In front of the Castle of Kings in Cracow the Germans have demolished the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought beside George Washington. In Warsaw the ghetto boundaries are squeezed tighter each month as more dead are carried out. Food supplies are now one-quarter of what they were before 1939. The Fukier wine cellar no longer has its miod (old fermented honey). The Germans have left only black crusts of bread for Poles and there is no longer bigos, brewed of wild game and cabbage...
...steel pinch is tighter than ever. As its solution of the problem, WPB gravely issued a flock of super-priority ratings (like AAA, AA-1, AA-2) to some former holders of the highly prized Aia. Results are fantastic. Machine-tool builders, for example, cannot even wangle a promise of delivery on their A-1-a orders...