Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tighten up controls over pill-type drugs. Last week the House passed, 402 to 0, and sent to the Senate a bill requiring that records be kept, from lab to drugstore, on sales of barbiturates ("goofballs") and amphetamines. Illicit sales of such drugs to persons under 21 could be punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order...
...foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
...History Department has "reluctantly" decided to tighten the requirements for honors candidates, Elliott Perkins '23, Head Tutor of the History Department, said last night...
...leading to a U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam inspired an international supposition that the U.S. would actually succumb to such pressure. But President Lyndon Johnson, without saying a public word on the subject, was more determined than ever to remain in Viet Nam-and, thread by thread, to tighten the screw against the Communist aggressors...
There was no need to put anything in place of the removed meniscus; the knee would recover as the space filled up naturally with air and fluid. But in his examination of the joint, Dr. Nicholas found that a ligament had been pulled and stretched. To shorten and thereby tighten it, he doubled it back on itself and "plicated" (pleated) it with sutures. To be sure that there was nothing wrong with the outside of Namath's knee, where he had had pain, Dr. Nicholas made a second incision and took a careful look. It was in good shape...