Word: hairbreadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sensitive Dissenter. The age of sophistication raises an eyebrow at any such Hairbreadth Harry interpretation of history. But the U.S.'s awakening to the twin perils of Communist intentions and Communist scientific capabilities has been a hairbreadth affair. Like his late great friend, James Forrestal, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with saws) was one of a little band of men in Government who caught the threat of Communism when others heard only what they wanted to hear, who was motivated by a single-minded patriotism when patriotism was a drug on the one-world market. For years, Strauss was virtually unknown...
...quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white men had done by 1882. After eleven months and as many hairbreadth escapes, he came out, having mapped 1,100 square miles of previously unexplored territory...
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...