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Word: tightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then consider that, until a 10-2 Yale run with two minutes remaining sealed the contest, Harvard clung tight...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Elis Inchworm by Men Cagers | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...tight contest wasn't in the cards this time. Less than two minutes into the game, Brown Captain Mardie Corcoran walked in alone on Harvard goalie Jennifer White and tallied from in close. Seven minutes later she scored again from almost the exact same spot...

Author: By Ken Segel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Pandas Powder Icewomen in Tournament | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...nice surprise too. His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, to the suicidal bravado of words spoken in heat. Like Hughes, he is eager to let his fine young actors strut their stuff: McCarthy, his tight, knowing smile intoxicating every female in sight (and doesn't he know it); Cryer, prancing, caroming, jiving nonstop, exploding into a sublime lip synch of Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness; Ringwald, the henna-haired emotional anchor. With their help, any attentive moviegoer can walk into Pretty in Pink feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Pains Pretty in Pink | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson's number four Lucy Miller squeaked by Yale's Liz Solovay, in an upset. "They were tight games, and the victory was a great breakthrough for Lucy," Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

Forward Phillips and guard Keith Webster each had trick-or-treat weekends and remained in a tight race for the team's scoring title. Phillips posted a career-low two points against the Lions but came back with 10 the following night...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: When 1-for-2 is Better Than 50 Percent | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

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