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Word: tightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leverett student demonstrated what might happen if a bum attempted to sleep on the grates. Leaning back like a Limbo dancer across the sabotaged ironwork, he found himself tumbling on the cold concrete. Everybody laughed and examined the structure. Look at those steel bolts. Solid. Soddered tight. Fresh coat of paint too. Reinforced steel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidental Kindness, Incidental Cruelty | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

Even so, security is tight. And it's the entrance procedure, Kennedy says, that is the most intimidating...

Author: By Elizabeth Buckley, | Title: Law Students Provide Legal Aid for Inmates | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

However, since the middle of last summer, Forsyth says, skateboards have been in demand once again. He attributes some of this resurgence to the recent movie Back to the Future, which showed teen idol Michael J. Fox finessing his way out of tight situations on a skateboard...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: The Four-Wheeled Fad is Back | 1/13/1986 | See Source »

With the Cantabs leading only 3-2 and the momentum apparently with RPI, Harvard found itself in a tight spot...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Split Weekend Jaunt: Dethrone RPI, Drop to UVM | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

...find his passport, and he was sent back to Sharm el Sheikh to await this week's rotation home. His buddies departed on a 1,900- mile flight to Cologne, West Germany, where the DC-8 landed for a 90-minute refueling stop. Security there was described as tight. After a 2,700-mile Atlantic crossing, the plane touched down at Gander to refuel again for the final, 1,700-mile leg to Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Screaming Eagles | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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