Word: eyelashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's Brian McAndrews lost a hearbreaker in the 600, nearly losing a couple of limbs in the process. Not only did McAndrews lose the race to Princeton's Joe Libertelli, 1:13.26 to 1:13.27, but he came within a gnat's eyelash of sustaining a serious injury when the four top finishers collapsed in a heap after lunging for the tape...
...came within a gnat's eyelash of winning it just ten seconds into the second overtime. Racing downfield off the kickoff, the Big Red sent a hard shot goalward--resulting in a Herold deflection--but then striker Steve Ruoff knocked the ball slowly toward the open...
...last crucial shots, just as if he had been playing an ordinary game. He did not hurry; he did not linger: there was a briskness and decisiveness about every movement, and whatever he may have felt, he did not betray it by as much as the movement of an eyelash. Yet he did not play as one in a dream, as people sometimes do at supreme crises: he was just entirely calm and entirely natural...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, at The Rand Daily Mail (where Pogrund works as Associate Editor, third in command), decisions of this type--whether to or how much of a story to run, while trying to avoid a judicial run-in with the government--occur every day, and nobody bats an eyelash...
...earliest days of the church. In the House of Bishops, 60% voted yes, a slim margin to carry conviction and impel churchwide support for such an emotional issue. In the House of Deputies (made up of priests and laity who vote separately on important decisions), it was an eyelash victory because of the house's peculiar voting system. If the priestly delegations from just three of the 114 dioceses had voted differently, the motion would have lost...