Word: gnats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...that day, Gravitt's family and Bell colleagues found in his briefcase a nine-page memo accusing his company of political payoffs, illegal wiretapping and using questionable bookkeeping to secure telephone rate increases. A hand-scribbled message added, "There is bound to be much more. Watergate is a gnat compared to the Bell system...
Mafia Hot Line. Detective fiction has it that the .22-cal. pistol with its tiny one-ounce slug is a gnat swatter, at its worst a woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced...
Brain Drain Gnat Strain...
Sandow, the Super Gnat, weighs only 120 pounds and stands just 5'5" tall. Although he has played in just one varsity game, Harvard's 57-0 defeat of Columbia in 1973, and has not suited up for a game yet this year, Sandow has not missed a football practice once in four years here...