Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brent School, in the Philippine mountain city of Baguio, were in for some cultural shocks. Having traveled 7,000 or 8,000 miles to celebrate the 75th anniversary of a school most of them had not seen for more than 40 years, they found something quite different from the tight little American island they had once known...
After the tight security that surrounded John Paul's visit to South Korea, the Pope seemed to revel in the enthusiastic reception that greeted him in Port Mores by, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The Pontiff won many hearts when, at a Mass, he said the Lord's Prayer in pidgin English, the most common local patois. "Papa bilong mipela, yu stap long heven . . ." At the local sports field he watched benignly as bare-breasted women in grass skirts chanted hymns and drummers sporting feathered headdresses pounded out an accompaniment on hollow logs covered with animal skins...
Understandably, Harvard lightweight Coach Bruce Beall is expecting "some very tight racing. "The Crimson hasn't raced Rutgers, leaving the Cantabs in a situation where, says the coach, "we don't really have an accurate reading comparing us to them...
Approximately 100 athletes from Czechoslovakia, Canada, Iraq, and Cameroon will live under tight security at Quincy House from July 14 until the games end on August...
...hands even while she is still in bed. The coach hopes that Benoit will begin running this week and get in three 14-mile runs before the women's Olympic trials at the end of next week. Says Sevene: "The doctors say it's going to be tight. But if she can pull it off, it's a hell of a story." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles