Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, a naval blockade and an appeal for a tighter U.N. embargo of Red China are under "very careful scrutiny" in the State Department...
...expected directive from the presidents toward tighter Ivy League scheduling in all sports failed to materialize. It is rumored, however, that Ivy League athletic directors discussed the plan at a recent meeting...
...Tighter League...
Ever since Joseph Stalin abolished the Politburo last October, the mystery inside an enigma (as Churchill once called it) of the Kremlin has only deepened. Who really administers the country now, the 36-man Presidium or the loman Secretariat (kitchen cabinet)? On the theory that it is the smaller, tighter Secretariat, Western intelligence agents and analysts last week were keeping an eye on a newly powerful figure in it, Nikita Khrushchev...
...strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...