Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensitive to criticism and impatient with opposition, has guarded his position as Japan's ruler by a tight censorship, designed to maintain his dignity, and thus the dignity of the U.S. As the first reaction to the candidacy began to filter back to Japan, the censorship was drawn tighter for both the Japanese press and U.S. Army publications...
Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...
...years he has been on loving terms with his ex-wife (Signe Hasso), who plays Desdemona. But as he settles down into a long run, and really gets hold of his role, it takes an ever tighter hold on him. He begins to suspect his pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) of being a backstage Cassio. He also experiences some sickening sideslips into full loss of identity. The company becomes more & more nervous about the frightening sincerity with which he plays his strangling scene with Desdemona. Will he finally go completely bats and commit murder...
...obscure. Eccles' term on the board ran to 1958, but his chairmanship was about to expire (Feb. 1). The small, greying boss of FRB had become increasingly irritating to Mr. Truman. Eccles had disagreed with Treasury Secretary Snyder on how to handle inflation. With his recommendations for tighter Government controls of banks and financing, he had stirred up the bankers and brokers. He was always treading on toes. He had also been spotted paying occasional visits to Senator Bob Taft. The ax fell...
When a correspondents' committee asked who was cracking down on whom and why, Baker said: "Every time [you] have pressed for a clarification of policy, the policy has grown tighter." To correspondents, the latest turn of the screw seemed to mean that the squeeze was on correspondents to write only good news about MacArthur...