Word: tightener
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...need to tighten up my turns and mentally prepare," she said...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) was talking pretty tough today when he introduced a bill to tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba and yank financial aid to any former Soviet country that helpsPresident Fidel Castro. Helms said he will not be satisfied until Castro is gone. "Let me be clear," the senator said, reverting to Cold War lingo. "Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many...
...being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...recent training run, Carey, a ruddy-cheeked blond in a ponytail, shinnied 60 ft. up the mast, tools in hand, to tighten some screws while swinging in a harness high over the choppy seas. "This isn't a battle of the sexes," she said afterward. "This is about having fun." Squinting into the glare, she added: "And about winning...
...fact when, a few chapters into the new novel, Richie is found deservedly dead with a pistol in his hand, his grip on the lives of Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...