Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walsh, who works on the second floor in the Sports News Office, says she thinks one of the reasons people stay with the department so long is a feeling that jobs there are secure. Although the budget is tight, she says, austerity has meant belt-tightening rather than layoffs. True, the building itself is old, and the heating system can make working there pretty uncomfortable--one side of the building is overheated while the other side is freezing. But Walsh says she has found the general friendliness at 60 Boylston more than makes up for a few physical inconveniences...
...endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most of the citizens of South Boston hold the high school close...
...endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most of the citizens of South Boston hold the high school close...
...experts will also look at the location of the controls to determine if the pilot can handle high-G maneuvers without having his muscles pulled awry in tight turns. They will look at the angle of the seat to see how many Gs the plane itself can sustain and measure the length of the radio antennas to get the range of frequencies the pilots operate on. Fire-control experts will look at the dials and mechanisms to determine what range the pilot must have to lock on to a target. The squad will be probing the electronic-countermeasure capability...
With a 7-3 lead, the Crimson appeared on its way to increasing the advantage on its next set of downs, but reserve tight end Paul Sablock, after an 11-yard reception, fumbled the ball over to the Lions on Columbia's 30-yardline. Sablock was taking the place of McDermott, who was injured on the previous series...