Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regulations, drawn up Saturday in New York by the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Council, are designed to tighten up already rigid national rulings on amateurism, scholastic standing, years of participation, and non-collegiate competition during and outside of college terms...
...novelist, Giuseppe Berto has a lot to learn. He knows very little about how to pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...
...Koates Bradlee, but if we tighten our Dorset we'll Clymer over them and Quinn." Harvard 28 Cornell...
...again this autumn, and although a miserable few scorn it, none deny that it exists. When the gates of Soldiers Field swing open this afternoon, and the crowd of Crimson partisans sweeps forward eagerly, all true Harvard pulses will begin to thump, and loyal throats will tighten. There will be alert and anxious clusters around television sets in local bars, and here and there, in isolated rooms, the grinds will tune in softly to catch the half-time score. This gentle madness will endure until the heavy snows have covered the last eleat-mark on the field, and memories...
...employment, which is still on the rise. It reached a record of 52,801,000 in August, some 350,000 above the previous month. (But total employment fell because of the seasonal midsummer slack on farms.) In the face of all this, it looked as if the U.S. could tighten its credit belt a great deal more before any sizable amount of inflation was squeezed out of the economy...