Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make an effective strike. Creole, the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary that produces almost half Venezuela's oil, reported output down 75% and closed its 300,000-barrel-a-day pipeline south of Lake Maracaibo for fear of sabotage. Shell Oil was reported to be closed down even tighter than Creole. The stoppage was just as tough on the government: its revenues, derived mainly from oil royalties, fell off sharply...
Skirts were tighter and shorter, as much as 16 in. from the ground. Padded hips were out; gone, too, were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...
...only under the Soviet government that Russia has become a grudging source of information, Fainsod asserts. Back in the days of the Czars, Russian censorship was tight, tighter in fact than during the early thirties...
Norman F. Ramsey, associate professor of Physics and former head of the physics department at the Brookhaven atomic energy project, questioned the wisdom of a tighter loyalty check for the Foundation's non-secret work than is used on applicants for Atomic Energy Commission followships...
...University housing for veterans led me to think that perhaps the apartment shortage for veterans was not as acute as I had thought. But upon inquiry at Hunneman and Co. (the University Housing Bureau) I was told that the shutting down of the University housing would make the situation tighter than ever, that there are 150 applications in the file of people who need housing immediately, and that there will be more by next fall when the summer's crop of newlyweds apply. Yet the reason given in the article was that the shutdown is due to the lower percentage...