Word: hairbreadth
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Michigan. Republican Fred Alger and Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams battled each other in another hairbreadth affair. By the morning after, Alger held a 35,000 lead, and Soapy's only hope seemed to be in the lagging returns from some strong Democratic districts...
...ruling engine" that makes the gratings is simple, in principle. It has a moving carriage that rules each line by means of a sharp diamond chip. After the carriage has made each round trip over the grating, a screw nudges it forward one ninetieth of a hairbreadth. Then it rules another line...
Finally, the exasperated pitcher managed to get through his motion. As the ball whipped toward the plate, the batter's cool blue eyes examined it with icy intentness. The ball, a hairbreadth outside the strike zone, plopped into the catcher's glove. Not until the umpire called "ball," almost resignedly, did Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky allow himself the small grimace that, during a game, passes for a satisfied grin...
...there half a dozen of them are sold, by mistake, to a party of British schoolgirls. Guinness & Holloway, fearful that the souvenirs may get back to the baffled authorities, chase after the little girls and then, in turn, become the object of a nationwide manhunt, slapsticky with pratfalls, hairbreadth escapes and colliding police cars. Highlight: Guinness eluding his pursuers by fading invisibly into a throng of Britons, all identical in sack coats, bowler hats and umbrellas...
...commodity prices than U.S. cotton men, who provide the raw material for thousands of consumer products. As a result of a bumper crop estimated at 17.2 million bales this year, cotton prices have tumbled from a March high of 46? to 35? a lb., 24% below ceiling and a hairbreadth above parity. Rather than sell at low prices, many cotton farmers have stored their cotton in warehouses, where they can get a loan price of 31? a lb., hope to drive the price up by keeping it off the market. In Washington, cotton men have been angrily demanding that...