Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never got the chance. His freshman year they switched Mac from linebacker to tight end, a move that cost him his playful revenge with me but indelibly etched his name in Harvard football memory...
...Yale--fourth and 12 with, less than 20 seconds to go--the tight end cut over the middle--the reception at the eight-yard line--the Mike Lynch field goal seconds later...
...Gold Helmet Award-winner as New England's Division One player of the year at season's end, McDermott's final year of football at Harvard saw no pomp, no hardware, but no loss of self-respect, as the tight end played steady and hard and finished tied for the third place on the all-time Crimson receiving parade...
Laird Guttersen, 52, an ebullient, bigboned retired Air Force colonel, remembers the day he "broke" as if it were yesterday. He had already watched his hands turn black "like German sausage" from tourniquet-tight binding; then ropes around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided...
...this efficiency is not less litigation or less crime, but a tight rein on dilatory lawyers through strict scheduling and the establishment of procedures to cut out unessential steps. Sometimes hearing the appeal itself is unnecessary. Under the court's civil appeals management plan, opposing lawyers are routinely brought together to explore the possibility of settling the case before the circuit court judges will even hear it. As a result, the number of cases settled or withdrawn before hearing last year in the Second was one-third higher than in the other circuits. If the case goes forward, further...