Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team kept to a tight man-to-man defense in the scrimmage. Jim Gabler and Rockwell were outstanding on the protection end, snaring frequent rebounds off the backboards...
Bacon's first exhibition, which opened in a London gallery last week, represented a minor triumph for his tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a triumph for Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain...
Stravinsky: Orpheus (the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). The tight, dry, subdued but dramatic music for the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet performed with great success at Manhattan's City Center last year (TIME, May 10, 1948). Performance and recording: excellent...
Power Hitter. The tight-lipped brothers are masters of a tightly run empire with an estimated net worth in excess of $65 million. Its citadel is the sprawling Western Cartridge Co. at East Alton, Ill., on the Mississippi bluffs just north of St. Louis. This huge plant grew out of a blasting-powder business which their father, Franklin, founded...
...should be an easy one for the Bunnies, who got off to a shaky start but finished their last five games with four wins and a tie. The Proxies of Timothy Dwight haven't seem a victory yet and aren't likely to go very far through Leverett's tight defense...