Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckles & Boots. Teen-age styles are also changing. Everywhere, the girls seem to be wearing hip-hugging skirts, shorter and far tighter than last year. Sloppy sweaters are on the way out, tighter ones topped with ropes of imitation pearls on the way in. Said one San Francisco high-school girl: "The word this year is meticulous...
What really hurts is that I've got 48 more weeks left, and between the end of summer session on Aug. 20 and the fall session on Sept. 15, things are going to be a tighter fit than my wedding ring. A month ago I could see $80 coming...
...drive to force tighter unification of the armed services got under way yesterday among Senators looking for some way to cut the house-approved $16,000,000,000 military appropriation. Senator Harry Byrd (D-Va.) told a reporter he hopes to see a new unification bill shoved through the Senate before that body is called to pass on military appropriations...
Throughout it all, the linguistic battle lines between the Mandarin-speaking refugees from the north and the laughing, dark-skinned Cantonese drew tighter and tighter. The northerners aloofly refused to attempt the Cantonese dialect and its eight singing tones (Mandarin has only four). They snootily reminded their hosts that Canton and Kwangtung Province had been declared a barbarous territory as recently...
...Tighter internal security by exposure of Communism and counterespionage...