Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going on until at least 11 p.m., and everything comes to a dead stop by 1 a.m. for the rare House party, 2 a.m. for all city establishments. At that point, further pickings are slim. Guys without a club go home, and girls bat eyelashes, wipe spilled beer from tight black pants and smile pretty at the door of a final club...
...announcement will come after more than a year of closed-door negotiations between the two schools, during which both sides have been tight-lipped about the future relationship...
Also prevailing in a tight match, Passarella defeated Patrick Sweeney 7-6 (6), 6-4, at the No. 5 singles slot...
Also prevailing in a tight match, Passarella defeated Patrick Sweeney 7-6 (6), 6-4, at the No. 5 singles slot...
Years ago, in an Oxford tutorial, I taught a young woman who affected an unusual habit. When asked a question that required deep thought, she would screw her eyes tight shut, jerk her head down to her chest and then freeze for up to half a minute before looking up, opening her eyes and answering the question with fluency and intelligence. I was amused by this and did an imitation of it to divert my colleagues after dinner. Among them was a distinguished Oxford philosopher. As soon as he saw my imitation, he immediately said, "That's Wittgenstein...