Word: tight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bridge, illuminated by dark red night lights that do not impair vision, the watch is nursing the Blough and her followers down-channel. The Mac leads, softening the brash in the channel and "leaning on the corners," as Gordon Hall puts it. The channels are desperately tight. Ore carriers must have room to pivot around the turns without their bows or sterns straying from the deep water. There is much moving back and forth by the Mac in an effort to flush the ice from the shipping lane, and she shakes like a wet puppy. The "Mackinaw Dance," the crew...
Many Iranian women are furious over the Ayatullah's attempt to impose a subservient role on females. Last week, after Khomeini was quoted as proclaiming that "women must not come naked into ministries," thousands of women, many dressed defiantly in tight jeans and skirts, paraded in Tehran in protest. Orthodox Islamic men attacked the demonstrators, and though guerrillas protecting the women fired warning shots, the zealots stabbed one woman and injured others...
...unspecified reasons. Similarly Algeria told oil company customers to reduce purchases by 10% to 15%. OPEC officials tried to link continued oil supplies to a pro-Palestinian solution to the Arab Israeli conflict, but the real reason for the cuts is to keep supplies tight and prices high even though Iran is resuming limited production...
...business doubled in seven days. Healthy competition can keep prices from rising, but competition is sharpest when there is a surplus of gasoline and weakest now, when supplies are tight...
Sometimes the game has inspired an author's best work. In Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly, the relentless, impersonal demands of a tight pennant race counterbalance the emotions stirred by a third-string catcher's lingering, fatal illness...