But when it was tighter his composure deserted him a couple of times.
He revealed that Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, banned him from talking to senior military logistics officials, and that the timetable was so tight that one unit, the Desert Rats of 7th Armoured brigade, was not operational until the day before the invasion.
He knew that the glitter of The Strip in the backdrop, behind the desolate desert and the tight, hard lives of the Parker family, carried a lot more weight and meaning than we could assign it at the time.
Roughly translated, this means corduroy pinafores, pin-tuck blouses and ribbed tights for girls, and button-through shirts, suede desert boots and colourful shorts or trousers for boys.
The software is pretty accurate for "tight, sterile" battles, such as those involving tanks in deserts, says an intelligence official.
The sexy "Desert Rose" when Sting's hip swiveling in tight jeans proved he's the hottest, coolest 60 year-old on the planet.
These billions – for fences, sensors, agents, drones, prison cells and other military-industrial expenditures – the border is now tight as a drum, or as tight as any 2,000-mile 2,000-milever-mountain-andesert-river-mountain-and-canyon
He travels through a desert, and takes off his jacket to reveal a tight-fitting t-shirt, and again imagines the woman, this time in a desert pond.
The contractors and the wanna-be's favored desert camouflage fatigues, wraparound Oakleys and military-style high-and-tight haircuts.
On the bus trip toward a prison in the California desert three years ago, Pete Fischer sat motionless, with his eyes fixed straight ahead and his mouth shut tight.
