Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much heralded swordsman who was undefeated as a freshman, lost one of his bouts and came close to dropping another. Keller seemed nervous in his first varsity appearance and lost his first match 5-1. He nearly dropped the second but rallied to win 5-4. He seemed tight and lacked the easy grace which carried him last year...
...Meanies won because they had an unbeatable System. They intimidated the participants and even the audience into playing their way; no blow was too low. Throughout the afternoon of rehearsing, they utilized oppression by numbers, deploying hordes of little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames...
Weinstein, an amiable giant at 6'5", 235 lbs., has ideal size for a pro tight end, and the scouts have been following his progress with interest. A crushing blocker, "the Tree" has excellent speed and sticky hands. He was Yale's top receiver last year, catching 16 passes for 318 yards and four touchdowns...
Jordanians have long expected Hussein to crack down on the fedayeen, who stand in the way of any hope of a settlement with Israel. Two weeks ago, residents of Jordan's capital of Amman awakened to the sound of gunfire. Loyal Bedouin soldiers clapped a tight curfew on the city and rounded up members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training...
...helped to keep British industry from taking much advantage of its opportunities to sell abroad. "We definitely miscalculated by delaying as long as we did," admits Wilfred Brown, the Board of Trade's minister of state for exports. Even after Wilson belatedly imposed austerity measures-heavy new taxes, tight wage controls and a skimpy national budget-the buying binge continued. Instead of falling by about 1½% this year as the government intended, consumer spending seems likely to rise by 2%. Three weeks ago, that prospect prompted the Board of Trade to toughen the country's already stiff...