Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China he showed me was as strikingly rugged as southern Utah and as green as Norway's eastern coast. As I expected, the peasant glee club sang a few rounds of "Socialism Is Good," and I nodded indulgently when the narrator noted that "no one starved, but rations were tight...
...even with Bradley. In the semifinals, he pumped in four quick baskets to give Princeton an early lead. Then Michigan started driving against him on offense, provoking him into fouls. Switching from a tight man-to-man defense to a loose zone, Princeton fell apart. With 5 minutes left, Bradley fouled out-and Michigan ran away with the game...
Another serious space-suit problem is flexibility. Contrast between the pressure inside and the vacuum outside tends to make the suit as tight as a drumhead. To move at all, arms and legs must be fitted with accordion-like joints. To judge by his motions, Leonov could move his arms fairly freely, but his legs and torso seemed stiff and straight most of the time...
...chief Soviet space designer, a mysterious figure who is never identified, described his ship sketchily. To get out into space, he said, Leonov used an air lock, a chamber with airtight doors at both ends. When he crawled into it, Comrade Belyayev sealed the inner door tight, and Leonov presumably tested his space suit to see that it was working properly; then he cautiously loosened the outer door. Though it must have been rehearsed on earth over and over again, this was surely a moment of hideous crisis...
Director Alexander Mackendrick keeps a tight hold on the story, smoothly matching it to the rhythm and color of strange locales-from teeming river ports to the wild game country where Sammy spends one dark African night silhouetted in a treetop, loudly and desperately singing "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?" But young McClelland projects courage without cuteness, and he is aided by consistently pungent dialogue. Forced to cope with the adult world, Sammy grows tough and wily, even puts on a bit, as when he embroiders details of his life at Port...