Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain and Canada will meet to see what can be done to save America's most important ally. What worried the U.S. as much as the prospect of Britain going bankrupt was the possibility that, in an effort to stave off bankruptcy, the British might withdraw into a tight autarchic sterling bloc which would in effect split the West...
There was no hobbling modesty about her copy either. The compound was "The Greatest Medical Discovery Since the Dawn of History." To U.S. women tortured by tight corsets and breath-killing clothes, she cooed: "That feeling of bearing down...is always permanently cured by its use." The list of complaints which the compound was supposed to cure ran the gamut from dysmenorrhea to nymphomania. Derisively, some citizens suggested that only one claim remained to be made-"A Baby in Every Bottle." As the Pinkham company grew, however, it dropped some of the more extravagant claims and emphasized the value...
...Tight-lipped Fiddler Heifetz, voluble little Pianist Rubinstein and hulking Cellist Piatigorsky had been wondering the same thing. Said Piatigorsky: "If you have one man who is very meticulous and precise, one who is more general and one who is ... ah ... melancholy, you must work very hard until you all feel [the music] together...
...chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last spring, they lit on John Patterson as their man, persuaded him to exchange his varied duties as parish rector for the narrower duties of head of a tight academic community; give up fishing in the cool lakes of Wisconsin for the streams of Connecticut...
There were two things to be done: either tear down the White House and start anew, or save the shell and rebuild the foundations and interior. Tearing it down entirely would have saved perhaps 10% of the bill, but even the most tight-fisted Congressman found a little sentiment stirring in his breast at so crass a thought. Last week a congressional committee approved plans for the spending of $5,400,000 to restore 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a way destined to make the White House survive in all its classic glory for another 300 to 500 years...