Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight man-to-man defense held the Terriers to wild shooting from the backfield and BU's abortive fast break only clicked only when Shepard put in most of his second team at the wind-up the game. Smith and guard Jim Gabler sparked the defense, Smith picking BU passes all around the basket, and Gabler effectively trapping rebounds...
...Morris Fishbein, long the big mouthpiece of the American Medical Association and self-appointed spokesman of organized U.S. medicine, finally found his forum cut from under him. Since his A.M.A. bosses clamped a tight muzzle on him last summer (TIME, June 20), it had not been much of a forum. This week, well aware that he was no longer welcome in it, Morris Fishbein resigned the editorship of the Journal and half a dozen other A.M.A. publications...
...year-old freshman apparently pulled the trigger accidentally while adjusting his rifle strap, police said last night. According to conflicting reports of eyewitnesses, Zilahy picked up the rifle, a .22 calibre Winchester, and found the leather sling too tight. In either a sitting or kneeling position, he attempted to loosen the sling, they said. The gun discharged, and the bullet lodged in Zilahy's forehead...
...Rebellion!" cried Chanis. "I will retain the presidency until I am killed." Vallarino sat tight. In some confusion the President asked Remón to reason with his stubborn lieutenant. Chichi Remón indignantly refused to negotiate while under arrest, so he was set free. Vallarino rushed a patrol car for his boss, then Remón took command and moved fast. Police squads were deployed around Panama City, the newspapers were temporarily shut down, the telephone exchange was taken over and ordered to complete calls only to or from police headquarters. Then Chichi Remón sent...
...York, and the 125,000 registered members and 400 clergy of the crowded 4,763-square-mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling...