Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seconds Horton pushed and O'Connell shoved as both kicked up plenty of dust and neither got any closer to his goal. In the end, Horton slithered by just in time to make it to second base...
...other coaches agreed to move the boat holding the Harvard shell ahead--the difference wasn't important this time, but later in the season when the competition gets tougher and the finishes closer, it could...
Cautiously Biff sniffed. He leaned closer, and suddenly, like some great sliderule his mind slipped to the solution--"Marijuana! I'd better get back to the office. The chief should be interested in this." He stuffed the evidence back into his pocket and dashed out the door...
...frame to hold it at an unnatural angle-at first, 15° backward and 20° to the left. They made a long incision from below his ear around past the windpipe. At last, U.C.'s Dr. Roland K. Perkins and Dr. Ronald J. Stoney could start moving closer to the target...
Returning across the country on a camping trip with his wife and three children, Slive was haunted by the picture: "I know it "sounds corny, but I honestly had visions of that painting in the campfires." Back in Cambridge, he had the oil sketch shipped to him for closer inspection. Fogg Art Museum colleagues, including Jakob Rosenberg, scrutinized it and agreed on its authenticity. Experts evaluated it as high as $400,000. To make finally certain, Slive strung the painting around his neck in a bag and flew off to Holland. "I felt just like James Bond," confesses Slive...