Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard squash team opened its season last Saturday afternoon, way up north in Canada, dropping a tight contest to the reigning National Intercollegiate champs, the University of Western Ontario...
...smallest man in the N.F.L.), the Nureyev of the sidelines, dancing beyond the grasp of lumbering would-be tacklers. The Atlanta Falcons' Rolland Lawrence (5 ft. 9¾ in., 178 Ibs.), a hawk masquerading as a defensive back, swooping in front of half-foot taller tight ends for five interceptions. The Los Angeles Rams' Harold Jackson (5 ft. 10 in., 175 Ibs.), the wide receiver with a modest No. 1 dangling from a gold necklace around his neck, tying up the secondary with a series of baffling fakes, then floating into the end zone all alone...
While the stereotypes are hilarious and wonderful. "Lost Cookies" turns into something more than a Cantabrigian "Welcome Back Kotter." The dialogue is daring--Maggie calls Sal "numbnuts," and Sal replies, "You're a tease, Miss Tight Ass"--and it never seems forced or garish...
Sunday afternoon, Joe Val and The New England Bluegrass Boys perform in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room at Harvard. The four-man band puts out a professional bluegrass sound, featuring tight vocal arrangements. The concert begins at 2 p.m., and admission...
...program moved through the House relatively intact, thanks to the skillful management of Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, who assembled an ad hoc energy committee to make sure he had tight control of the bill's fate on his turf. But in the Senate, where the rules of procedure do not permit tight organization as in the House, the plan has come completely unstuck. The dismemberment has been greatly aided by an intense lobbying effort by the oil industry, whose powerful friends include Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee. Generally, the House voted to retain...