Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shooting from long range Grate hit four field goals and played a tight defense on the Bruins leading scorer, Billy Reynolds. Reynolds made only one goal in the first-half...
Harvard will play a pressing game against the potent Elis. "Our first line will forecheck and attack as usual," Kinasewich said, "but our other two units will concentrate more on a tight defense...
Adams, on the other hand, has improved. A tough man in a tight spot, he was tapped by Harvard coach Bill Brooks as anchor man for the crucial final relay against Princeton. He also won the 1000-yard freestyle that day and placed second in the 100 free...
MEMO FROM DESILU PRODUCTIONS: Good morning, Mr. Getter. We like your script. In fact, we think its potential is greater than you realize. Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, Bruce, will be to boil down your feature-length thriller to a tight, pulsating 49 minutes, then come up with 27 more just like it. Same basic plot on which the fate of mankind hangs. Same fascinating attention to visual gimmickry. We think we've got a world-capable series here. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics...
...teachers had some reason to complain that this was the wrong time to pull tight the purse strings. The average teacher salary in Florida is $6,660, which is $660 below the national norm. And while Florida is growing rapidly in population and wealth, it is actually slipping in the share of state revenue devoted to education. It ranks tenth among the states in per-capita income, but at $523 per pupil, ranks 37th in what it spends on the schools. Ten years ago the state contributed 59% of the cost of the schools; last year this had shrunk...