Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waking, and went all day from sundown to blackout wallowing in it until he dropped from exhaustion and total inebriation, happy and not caring if he ever woke again. Trudging all day over the flat stale beer of the stony plain, brandy of hills, mouth shut tight because it seeped in continually through eyes, ears, nose and anus, the drink of land and the never-ending gutterbout of topography, a blinding weekend of landbooze that went on for months...
When he says that "dissident sartorial fashion" is a form of transvestism that blurs sex differences, it seems that he has never looked beyond the long hair and junk jewelry to the girls in miniskirts and bikinis, or the young studs in beards, creeping sideburns and tight jeans. And when he claims that "the Underground" in the U.S. (which he does not define beyond the suggestion that it is a vague association of malcontents) never raised its voice against the Russian suppression of Hungary, he is simply indulging in a naive bit of conspiracy theory...
...Congolese army sergeant is up tight. "To you, this is just a piece of real estate called the Congo," he snarls at his boss, a commander of mercenaries. "But to me it's our Bunker Hill...
...wage and price controls, he hopes, are temporary measures, but he fully intends to keep the reins tight on the unions. He plans to start taxing unused land on Uruguay's huge ranches and to attract new capital with a stable peso. He also threatens to fire unnecessary bureaucrats, but in Uruguay no step involving jobs is quite that easy. There is, however, a measure before Congress that would give superfluous federal employees a year's salary just to quit...
Dusty Grind. Government control has always plagued French broadcasting, but under the regime of Charles de Gaulle, censorship has been particularly tight and unyielding. A few hours after the student riots erupted, for example, newscasts on O.R.T.F.'s two TV channels casually observed that the troublemakers had returned to their books and all was safe and snug in the land. Then, as turmoil mounted, TV newsmen prepared a two-hour report on undergraduate unrest, but minutes before it was to be aired, the government suppressed...