Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stalin was tender with her in her early childhood, bestowing "loud moist kisses" and calling her "little sparrow." But as she reached adolescence, he became incensed by her independent spirit. He berated her for the "insolence" on her face. He made a scene when he found her wearing a tight sweater. He hated the sight of her in short skirts and made her wear hers much longer than other schoolgirls did. When he learned that she had a lover, he slapped her twice across the face...
...wrenching experience for Olga, who invariably introduced herself by saying, "I'm an American." As it happened, her new school was exceptionally liberal--and Olga loved it. Svetlana was horrified to discover that students were allowed to wander around town by themselves after classes. She forbade Olga to wear tight jeans and bright tops like the other girls. During vacations, she kept Olga from playing with the children of Cambridge acquaintances. Says Fay Black, then a part-time teacher at Olga's school: "Her mother clung to her like a warden to a prisoner. The child's only hope...
...Piscataway High, Principal James Koch, proud of the "tight ship" he runs, said that the decision "puts an element of safety and stability back into public schools," without which "no education can take place." At other schools around the country, the judgment brought more applause and, in some states, outright relief. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, teachers and administrators, uneasy about their rights of search, "have been looking the other way" when they sensed that something wrong was afoot...
Washington insiders have mixed feelings about a truly tight White House ship, depending upon their own interests there. Right now, says a presidential aide, "nobody knows who's in charge of what, and people like (Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger slip in the back door and get policy changed at odd hours without anybody realizing what's happened." A lobbyist agrees, but prefers things that way. Says he: "If Baker blocked you, you could go to Meese or Clark. No more. Regan will nail up the back door." A Washington-based business leader sees another key difference in the Baker...
...events more than a decade old, Crile had to discount the prejudices and bitterness left over from a war riddled with ambiguities. His sources sometimes waffled and contradicted each other. After 80 interviews, Crile had to whittle down dozen of hours of videotape and volumes of information into a tight 70-minute package. By necessity, most of the evidence wound up on the cutting-room floor...