Its plethora of pick-up lines (" You got a smile so bright / you know you coulda been a candle / I'm holding you so tight / You know you coulda been a handle ") began as a light-hearted joke between Robinson and Rogers to pass time on the long bus rides.

The bow gunner was found to be missing, and a quick glance at the burning tank showed the gunner's hatch still closed tight.

KMT control was so tight that many Chinese delegates attending the Sixth Congress were forced to travel in disguise: Zhou himself was disguised as an antiquarian.

The Chinese government will try to control the media to keep a tight hold on propaganda efforts for its people, though the success of this will be mitigated by the ever-increasing global availability of information.

Due to the primitive communication systems and the tight political controls within the Chinese army, short attacks were often repeated indefinitely until either the defenses were penetrated or the attacker's ammunition supply were exhausted, regardless of the chances of success or the human cost.

The Mongol-employed Chinese and Korean footmen wielded long pikes, fought in tight formation, and moved in large units to stave off cavalry.

In an interview shortly before his death, he explained that since the 1950s, Chinese takeout was the most convenient nutrition: back then, NBA teams travelled on regular flights and had a tight time schedule, so filling up the stomach with heavier non-Chinese food meant wasting time and risking travel-sickness.

Mirza, partnering Rushmi Chakravarthy in the Women's doubles competition at Olympics, bowed out, losing to Chinese Taipei in a tight match.

Unlike the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Shanghai Stock Exchange is still not entirely open to foreign investors due to tight capital account controls exercised by the Chinese mainland authorities.

Also, the tight political control had created a general dissatisfaction amongst the Chinese ranks, and it required constant political indoctrination and high peer pressure to maintain high morale for each soldier.

Due to Beijing having tight control over religious practices, Chinese Muslims are isolated from Islamic world trends.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

Cobb's assent was tight.

Nerves tight as a bowstring, he paused to gather his wits.

Greg went up tight against the ceiling and led them back to their pass to home.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

We were in a field, in a tight, screeching turn.

The spokes were tight again, the iron tires gripped onto the wheels as if of one piece.

A tight wagon meant so much.

he wanted nothing compressed, tight.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.

I'd wound Big Hans up tight.

The skin on his neck was tight.

It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

To find the other stop screw position, insert the tappet into the frame and hold the screw head tight against the frame edge.

Do not draw yarn too tight.

Hold on tight.

Or the victim could chew hard on a piece of paper, meanwhile pressing his fingers tight in his ears.

He might be very tight, but he knew where he was.

One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.

She had changed into a cocktail dress, and the whole evening should have been before her, but already she was beginning to get a tight feeling at the back of her neck.

So you sit in the car and listen to the air run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in front of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.

Her skin was stretched so tight that her cheekbones stuck out, and if looks could kill, Wally would have been dead.

She was blonde, and young, and nice and round in a tight white dress.

The character of Christine Darbon left an important and indelible mark on Truffaut's work: she is a character who never really reveals her emotions, whose sad smile is her only weapon to fight Antoine's cruelty and whose soft glance barely manages to hide an inner wound.

The crackdown that happened was on the middle Sunday at the French Open, so if I was not practicing or playing a match, I was glued to the television, watching the events unfold ... I often tell people I think it was God's purpose for me to be able to win the French Open the way it was won because I was able to put a smile on Chinese people's faces around the world at a time when there wasn't much to smile about.

:“ Every chapter, every paragraph in this book will offend or amuse some patriotic or esoteric soul: the orthodox Jew will need all his ancestral patience to forgive the pages on Yahveh ; the metaphysical Hindu will mourn this superficial scratching of Indian philosophy ; The Chinese or Japanese sage will smile indulgently at these brief and inadequate selections from the wealth of Far Eastern literature and thought.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.

It seemed to Barton that the green eyes mocked him, the thin-lipped smile held insolence, but he had no time to waste now.

Brenner continued to smile, but his eyes were cold.

`` You're the doctor '', he returned with a smile.

It was her first smile.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

a smile.

The girl in the prow of the outrigger turned a smile like a beacon on me.

Again Steinberg was cautious and replied with a smile that he was not exposed to it enough to hazard comments.

The mouth frequently breaks into a disarming smile.

Mr. Watson did not have much humor in his make-up, but he managed a mirthless smile.

He would bring her boxes of candy and other presents to coax a smile to her lips.

The President used to look at it with a ghost of a smile.

She opened the boxes with a tear in her eye and a sad smile on her face.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

The students were laughing uproariously at this piece of logic, and even the policemen were trying hard not to smile.

He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him.

Jane nodded with a pleasant smile.

`` Connections '' was all he would say with that smooth hurt smile when I put leading questions.

`` Your voice is delightful '', he approved with a warm smile.

For an instant the old aunt felt something indefinable flash through her smile.

They were `` sincere '' -- men of the too-hearty handclasp and the urgent smile.

With faint heart and a brave smile, I endured his long absences from Chateau Belletch, his coldness, his indifference, his slights and his abuse.

Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling ).