Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...target over the southern, or panhandle, part of North Viet Nam. U.S. pilots speculated that the F-l 11, which sweeps in at treetop level on bombing runs, may have run into a hill or mountain. Not surprisingly, the Air Force slapped on a tight security blackout. Since the plane is crammed with the very latest navigational and other electronic gear, the U.S. did not want to let the enemy know whether it fell over the North or in Communist-held portions of Laos. The Pentagon confirmed that the second F-l 11 crashed in Thailand after what...
...famed Crimson defense held tight for the rest of the first period, but midway through the second quarter the favored Indians roared back...
Because of tight patrols by police and British tommies, whose numbers were reinforced for the occasion, major violence was averted among rival Creole, Hindu and Moslem groups, who nonetheless continued sniping at one another. Violence or no, Mauritius faces hard times. Britain's sugar subsidy runs out in 1970. By then, Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam of the Hindu-backed Independence Party hopes to diversify the economy and lure new foreign investment. To avert violence, Britain will also help train and equip Mauritius' police and armed forces. As added protection, a company of the King's Shropshire...
...hoary mist that has hung over productions of Chekhov spumed from Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theater: a distinctive technique marked by precise characterization, long pauses, distilled emotion, and tight pacing that presented the final pistol shots of an Ivanov or Seagull as the Q.E.D. of human tragedy, lucidly observed. In English-language productions, all this has been sustained by country-house diction supported by the characterological self-control necessary to maintain strong emotion over long sentences. These productions were, and are often powerful but they have two chronic diseases--boredom spawned by excessive refinement of speech and movement...
This battle of speeches and styles provides a basic speed and excitement in the Agassiz production that can overcome any amount of slow cues and nervously mis-timed punchlines--both of which abounded last night. But the control was tight enough so that the sloppiness for the most part just ruined jokes instead of scenes...