Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of U.S. investors pulled their belts a little tighter last week when no fewer than seven big-time corporations slashed common-stock dividends. Samples...
...forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...
Home Is The Place. In the second year the Home Guard achieved tighter organization, closer liaison with the Army and cooperation with the War Office, which was impressed by the caliber of Commandomen graduated from the Home Guard. These things gave the Guard a new role that no one dreamed of two years ago. The use of the Home Guard on coastal anti-aircraft guns, in troop transport and in joint field maneuvers indicated what the Government had in mind: shifting the burden of the defense of Britain on to the Home Guard, so that an army...
...reached its zenith. . . . After a general survey it was recognized that Japan was almost totally dependent upon imports and exports. Accordingly the blockade so dear to democratic hearts was set down as the controlling weapon for a war in the Pacific. ... As time went on and the blockade grew tighter, the Nipponese navy would be forced to come out and fight to relieve the terrific pressure. Then, of course, it would be destroyed, and the war would be won. . . . The war plan had been drawn, but the enemy had been overlooked, at least as a reasoning creature." After dissecting...
...penned up with a German Army, the Russians saw their best hope of destroying the enemy. General Busch had been there since last September, and he had plenty of reason to regret the dashing autumn drive of his army. For there was no doubt that Russia was crimping him tighter & tighter. He needed the spring as badly as any man on the front. And, above Moscow, the thaw was still six weeks away...