Word: tight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tight police security ? at times the cordons around him were four deep? kept the Pope from one of his favorite activities, working the crowds. But still he pressed the flesh with anyone he could reach, displaying a deft politician's hand that would have shamed Lyndon Johnson. The police had reason to wall off their charge: the FBI in Newark received a written warning that the Pope would be shot in Manhattan on Tuesday. The letter, purporting to come from the terrorist Puerto Rican Nationalist F.A.L.N., directed the FBI to an apartment in Elizabeth, N.J., where a submachine...
...people who have admitted guilt and signed contracts with the district attorney's office agreeing to abide by whatever penalty their peers impose. The juries handle such crimes as assault, possession of dangerous weapons or marijuana-all but the most serious. Typical sentences include unpaid community service, obeying tight curfews, avoiding the city's high-crime Capitol Hill area, attending school, getting a job or making full restitution in cases of theft or vandalism...
...drive stalled again at the 25, but Tanner found tight end Brad Decker wide open at the 5 to set up a first and goal. When Bob Muha went over from the 1 two plays later, Cornell led 20-0 and was on its way to a romp...
After four consecutive running plays and a first down, the Big Red struck into Harvard territory with a quick slant pass over the middle from Mike Tanner to tight end Paul Goodberlet...
Tactics, maneuvers, the grim, tight-lipped faces of police trained to avoid eye contact, other moments when the barriers break down and protesters and police treat each other as people, the fences and chants and vigils and pickets and the Chain Link Fence, it all blends together. To the side of the road, 20 ducks in group formation leave a small pond and head into the forest. It looks like an affinity group...