Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first half of the ninth inning of the sixth game, Detroit's skinny little right-handed Pitcher Tommy Bridges got into a tight spot when the first Chicago batter made a three-base hit. He wriggled out of it by getting the next three men out in order. In the last half of the inning, with one out, Detroit's Catcher-Manager Mickey Cochrane cracked out a single, reached second while the next man was being thrown out. With two out and the score 3-3, Detroit's Left Fielder Goose Goslin then hit a single into...
...Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he quieted his prancing giants, then eased their reins and let them lean into their collars. When he clucked them "G-up!" they heaved, set leather straining and tug chains tight. Whipping and rein-slapping are not allowed but were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding, tearing, tossing up clods in their mighty struggle. The load moved, it kept moving. When ponderous Rock & Tom brought up with their snorting nostrils against the board fence, their load...
...Shrew's furious scenes last week in Philadelphia, Lynn Fontanne Lunt tore a cartilage in her knee, played the rest of the week with her knee in a tight bandage...
...Kennedy, the present law has filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing up and supporting such a dangerous, undemocratic, wrong bill as the one under which he so successfully operates...
...chipped a bone in his wrist last month. Eric Tyrell-Martin. who showed the effects of a winter's polo at Del Monte, Calif., played above his seven-goal U. S. handicap. Far from the runaway that the crowd half expected, the game turned out to be a tight struggle in which the score was tied seven times and in which the goal that finally won, 9-to-8, for the Hurricanes, was scored in the last chukker when Hurlingham was addition ally burdened because its No. 1, "Chicken"' Walford, had in a crisis chosen a mare named...