Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first, the 90th Congress has suffered from a decidedly schizophrenic personality-free-spending and liberal in the Senate, tight-fisted and curmudgeonly in the House of Representatives. Last week, when the long-pending Truth-in-Lending bill came to a vote in the House, the roles were reversed. Where the Senate last summer diluted the measure to assure its passage, the House not only clapped back everything that had been stripped from it but broadened it considerably...
According to Hansen about 50 people, 15 of them children between the ages of three months and ten years, are supported by Avatar. They live in a small, tightly knit community on Fort Hill in Roxbury. "We have four houses and ten apartments," said Hansen. "It's a very tight thing, like a family. It works out because everybody cares enough about everybody else...
Schultze sought to show that the budget of $186.1 billion proposed for the fiscal year beginning July 1 (see box) was as tight as Lyndon Johnson claimed; that the $10.4 billion increase over this year results from military needs and extra expenditures required by law. It was here that Democrat Mills, with the full support of Ranking Republican John Byrnes, made his stand...
Three days later, there he was, talking about next season, about maybe changing his offense ("We might go to the old tight-T"), about his plethora of talented running backs, about his rookie quarterback prospect, Don Horn ("He'll be a great one some day"). Reports of Vince Lombardi's retirement may be greatly exaggerated...
Last Saturday, Columbia avenged an early season loss to Cornell by smashing the Big Red in a regionally-televised game. The Lion's awesome all-around performance got lost in the UCLA-Houston extravaganza that night, but it combined effective shooting and rebounding with a tight man-to-man defense...