Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
After tucking away three goals in the first nine minutes of play, the visitors jumped to a 5 to 2 lead at the half. Pembroke tried to tighten up its field at the start of the second 20 minute period, but could only score once before felding. Miss Worthington sent three goals into the net and the game was over...
Coach Dick Merryman will possibly shift the defensemen to tighten up the defense, which was somewhat shaky in last Wednesday's game with Governor Dummer. Captain Bill Spence is the only sure starter at defense, while the other two men will be picked from Ned Normal was has started all the games so far. Godfrey Birckhead. Jay Byrne, and Stan Brager, another regular starter...
Policemen came and lowered a rope. They hoped to slip it over Kathy's head and shoulders. They pulled gently, felt it tighten, then catch. They stopped, afraid that the noose might have caught around her neck. There was no longer any sound at all from the well...
...some caution in the air. Florida had never had so many tourists, but along Miami Beach, where workmen had labored overtime under nightlong floodlights to build 19 new hotels for the booming luxury trade, that trade was no longer booming. In Seattle a waitress complained: "Things are starting to tighten up all right; you get twice as many 10? tips as you did six months ago. No more two bits and four bits...