Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Maidstone, England, recently developed a new fingerprint coding method for the FBI in his spare time. Malcolm K. Sparrow, a British police officer whose hobby is working with fingerprints, says he hopes the program will help him prepare for his new appointment as Chief Inspector, and move him closer to his ultimate goal of attaining the highest position in the force...
...when he spoke about the space program his eyes looked lit and positively excited. The camera inched a little closer to his face, and he seemed for a moment to stop reading the cue cards. Hinting at the secrecy of the Soviet space program, he was wide-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, virtually light-hearted. He had the cocky, cagey look of a reverend who has suddenly resurrected humor from a grim funeral party, the irreproachable charm of a boy who has insouciantly wiped his nose on his mother's burial shroud...
Claverly Hall is still a hell of a lot nicer than Briggs Hall, and a hell of a lot closer to campus. Still though, what's not to like about an elevator that buzzes instead of ringing at each floor, a wood-columned common room ruined by gloomy slate-blue paint, or a broken down stairway that hasn't even had the missing poles in the banister replaced...
...shot caromed off, but the crowd (listed at8564 but really closer to 6500) gave him astanding "O" for effort...
...morning matchup against F & M was closer than the final score might indicate...