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Word: tightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come out into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls," says a Peking gynecologist. "A few weeks ago, I performed one on a 23-year-old worker. It was her third." A pedestrian on Shanghai's bustling Nanking Road may find himself solicited by tight-jeaned, leather-jacketed homosexuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Capitalism in the Making | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...threateningly at Jamie's band, forcing him to flee towel-clad into the auditorium. Borrowing a pair of potato-sack fashioned pants from his assistant, Jame races off, his hair somehow blow-dried along the way until evidently traumatized by the ordeal of screaming fans clawing at his skin-tight clothes on stage and the real goods afterwards, he loses control of his car, totaling a vegetable stand and literally running into Liner Eilber...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hard to Handle | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...With his tight sack pants barely falling off in one of perhaps two last opportunities to show the onetime Dr. Noah Drake of General Hospital with his pants down, he casually apologizes and offers to pay for everything. "Insurance," he says, "my agent handles that," as he races off with the vegetable stand hooked alongside as an Italian grocer curses him out. Jamie, cool as ever, mouths. "You're beautiful...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hard to Handle | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

Despite the overwhelming opposition to Pinochet's regime, it is unlikely that he will be persuaded to step down soon. He has, if anything, become more determined to keep a tight grip on the country in the face of growing internal and external criticism. There are signs that his once unswerving military support has been reduced to a small core of hard-line generals. Various governments around the world have openly criticized him in recent months. For Pinochet, the most stinging criticism comes from the U.S.: only minutes before the protest began, the State Department sent a telex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Street Fight | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...veil of secrecy is drawn so tight that not only is it impossible to reconstruct the events of the past, but even to reveal the existence of a debate about the meaning of those events....One does not expect...university presidents to adapt Orwell's memory hole" to the governance of universities...

Author: By Sigmund Diamond, | Title: Keeping Secrets | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

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