Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Going to the line the runners kept their sweaters on as long as they could. As they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into the cinders to make the little pits that sprinters need to leap from if they do not use blocks, the raw air seemed to tighten up the muscles beneath Tolan's ebony skin. The pistol cracked. In a fraction of a second the first hunched, speed-gathering strides were over. Somehow Simpson had drawn a yard and a half in front. He was running in his famed "classic" style, his head back, his knees...