Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, Dougherty was not a name that made news until last week's news made Dougherty a name to conjure with in Brooklyn.* Edward P. Dougherty, 19, shiny-haired, tight-collared, $20-per-week clerk in a broker's office, paid $1 for a ticket in the Canadian Army & Navy Veterans' Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. The ticket drew Blenheim, won $149,262. Edward P. Dougherty told the news to his father, Daniel, an apartment house doorman, and his brother Daniel Jr., another broker's clerk. Instantly, in their four-room apartment, they fell to arguing...
...whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw of South Dakota's Black Hills, tried to picture his tight-fitting habit of black buckskin, his black "thorough bred steed," his broad black hat with "a thick black veil over the upper portion of his face through the eyeholes of which gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity." Thrilling indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked...
...represented almost one-fifth of the earth's territory and almost one seventh of the globe's population. The General was in ordinary, long trousered U. S. evening dress. The Comrade, a shade more conventional, wore regulation British Court knee breeches, but above, instead of a standard ambassador's tight, gold laced jacket, he wore a coat and vest similar to General Dawes...
...about 1,000 feet below the crest, the leaders will ready themselves. Forcing as much light nourishment as they can, they will make their dash to the treacherous top. As they climb, a few feet at a time, they will be sure that their tandem ropes are tight, that their footing is sure. They are all aware that Kanchenjunga has taken five lives, is willing to take as many more...
...Home." Through the grey tissue of the rain it was hard to see what was happening at the post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion ? that second in which the crowd took its breath to let out the abrupt blurred noise that meant the Derby had started...