Word: tightly
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Washington is a strangely unified team of completely fragmented identities, unbearably cute. Tight ends included, the offensive linemen are the "Hogs," a brand name incorporated by Starke, who did not waste his Columbia education. The undersized receivers, notably 5-ft. 7-in. Alvin Garrett (cut thrice elsewhere), are the "Smurfs." Those who synchronize their celebrations in the end zone are the "Fun Bunch." After being strafed in a 48-47 loss at Green Bay, the defensive backs took to calling themselves "the Pearl Harbor Crew...
...killing the pilot, Lieut. Mark Lange, 26, and leaving Goodman a P.O.W. "I remember the plane being jostled," Goodman said, "and instead of looking at the sky, I was looking at the ground." Ejected from the plunging aircraft, he passed out, awakening to the sensation of "ropes so tight my fingers were numb." His knee and shoulder were injured during the mission. Goodman was taken to a six-story military compound in Damascus and locked in a dank basement room, where he endured threats, occasional beatings ("They weren't trying to hurt me, just trying to scare...
...solve such problems. He has traveled abroad relatively little and speaks no English. Yet he is at ease with foreigners and has a reputation as a deft, and occasionally witty, diplomat. After he became a member of the Politburo in 1979, he surprised many Chinese, long bored by tight restrictions on dress, by appearing in public in a Western tie and jacket, the first high official to do so since the Cultural Revolution. Like most of China's present leaders, Zhao was brutalized by the Red Guards. In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton...
With these experts' connivance, Watson adopted a new identity based on false documents and stationery filched from New York City's Metropolitan Museum. To help people in the art world remember him easily, Watson flaunted a quirky bow tie and cultivated a limp by wearing an excruciatingly tight pair of Italian shoes...
Neither Proulx nor Blair particularly enjoyed playing in such a tight game. Asked if Harvard's first shutout of the season was a great way to end a seven-game losing streak, Blair responded: "I would have liked to maybe beat them...