Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competition in the 1965 campaign market is tight. All the nine incumbents are seeking re-election, but there's a good chance that at least one of them will get bumped off. Though this may not seem very exciting, or even very tight, it is--and it could change the very ground rules of the city's politics...
Halfway through the House soccer season, a tight race for the championship come certain. With upsets cropping up each week to plague analysts, no team, or even group of teams, looks clearly superior to the rest of the league...
looks preshrunk, forlorn, anonymous, an obsequious undertaker in a tight black suit-except that dark eyes of mourning seem to have been burned into his head with a blowtorch. He is pale, wary, jumpy, an urban night monkey traveling in the jungle of cities from Paris to New York. The combo behind him breaks into a jazz beat, and he punctuates the air around him with staccato jabs of his hand mike. Nervously he whips the mike cord, and it coils and undulates like a black snake. At the end of it, his slight body stiffens in a convulsive spasm...
...Tight...
Hammond held off Columbia after Bowditch was injured, however, and should give the Crimson a tight net unless he reinjures his knee. Backing Hammond will be sophomore John Childs. Although Childs has no varsity experience, he has looked good in the J.V. goal this Fall...