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Word: gnat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with lower fares on instate routes. They forced Air Florida to reduce sharply its Miami-Tampa flights and all but abandon the Miami-Orlando run, but the airline retaliated, charging Eastern with "predatory pricing" before the CAB. Eastern spokesmen denied the Air Florida challenge, saying, "They're a gnat. We didn't even know they were there." As a result of deregulation, that may change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dividends from Deregulation | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Freshman Don Pompan, playing at two in his first league match ever, turned in the most amazing performance of the day as he defeated Lion David Cooper by a gnat's eyelash--that translates to 3-6, 7-6 with a 5-4 tiebreaker (ulp), and 7-5. Pompan broke Cooper's service twice to win the last four games of the match, after fighting off two match points in the second set and charging back from 3-0 and 4-1 deficits in the third...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard Gives Lions a Double-Mauling | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

Dales was swirling his irons with a ragtime rhapsody to the piping winds and looked like he would run away with individual scoring honors. Then his putting touch began to unravel and he missed a slew of putts by about the width of a gnat's eyelash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Wallop URI, Southern Connecticut; Dale, Fitzgibbons and Alexander All Shoot 76 | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Trackmen Blaze to Big Three Victory | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...Harold Jackson dreads a hit from undersized defensive backs: 'When a bigger guy hits you, he just hits you enough to put you down. But those little guys are trying to take your head off; they really let down the boom on you." No matter what their target-gnat or giant-the little men can be big trouble. Is overcompensation, a Napoleon complex? Gray admits to a special joy in beating the big guys. Says he: "I like to look at the expressions on their faces after I beat them running a goal pattern. After I catch the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Runts in the Big League | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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