Word: hairbreadth
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...greatest playwright of the past 25 years, decided 500 theatrical people polled by Theatre Arts magazine: Eugene O'Neill. The best cinema writer: Robert Sherwood. The top stage performance of the past quarter-century: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Running a hairbreadth second: Laurence Olivier in Oedipus. The best cinema performance: Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Running second again: Olivier in Henry...
Riding the crest of a ten-game winning skein as a result of their hairbreadth 6-5 upset over Dartmouth last Saturday, the Yale hockey forces will face off against Harvard this weekend in search of their fourth Pentagonal League victory in a row. Since the beginning of their winning streak of January 15 by virtue of a 7-1 triumph over Clarkson Tech, Coach Murray Murdoch's skaters have piled up an average of 7.7 goals per game as opposed to 2.3 for their opponents...
...motivation for this hairbreadth nonsense is a $500,000 diamond necklace. Bracken gets involved only because he is a featherbrained kleptomaniac. The hoodlums keep busy because they have their workaday jobs to do. Veronica Lake is vaguely and halfheartedly associated with the hoodlums...
Blake bagged his other bonus by another hairbreadth: the Canadiens squeezed through the holiday with a bare one-point, league-leading edge over the Detroit Red Wings. The Detroiters had been all but unbeatable in recent weeks, and looked like likely first-placers when they met the Canadiens in a midseason "crucial game" last week. Blake, Richard and Lach promptly busted that bubble; their eight goals and eight assists, with Right-Winger Richard going on a five-goal spree, added up to a crushing 9-to-1 victory...
With MacArthur's help, Annalee Jacoby made a hairbreadth escape from the Philippines. In bright moonlight the boat slipped through the minefields, past the Cavite shoreline where Jap artillery blazed. Beyond the bay she and her companions laid a tricky course to freedom-moved only by night, holed up during the day. ("There was always a tight feeling in our stomachs, and we sat on deck with our legs and arms crossed as well as our fingers".) She "filed her nails over and over again", twice almost to the quick-once when eight Jap warships steamed parallel to their...