Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Saturday dawned, Challenger's crew learned that a dust storm had developed across the Atlantic at an emergency landing facility near Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Under NASA's tight safety rules, a shuttle cannot go up unless it has a place to land if something goes wrong before it reaches orbit. Such facilities have never been needed, but every risk had to be minimized. Challenger's crew would have to wait another 24 hours...
Because seven minutes into the final stanza, with the Green up by 11, the Crimson started to play the kind of tight, confident basketball it has hinted at--but never quite sustained--several times over the past few weeks...
...Blair] had a little problem with his angles," Fusco said. "We have a big rink. He's not used to playing tight corners. And we never gave him a chance to get in the game...
...that was last month, before the Ivies got tight...
...hype, you know it. But in between Yosemite Sam-style half-swallowed profanities, you can't help wondering whether he got it cut below the ear or in a more fashinable high-and-tight. Static swallows the remainder of the newscast; you reach the city limits, and the radio swells back on: "...late-breaking news, folks...(some annoying feedback here)...it was...fizzle, fizzle...a high and...(more bothersome static)...tight...