Word: hairbreadths
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...seem so funny and so sad at the same time. The mishaps that befall the pair have a wonderfully impromptu quality, as if Director Claude Autant-Lara, occasionally glancing at the story (by Marcel Ayme) from which the movie is loosely taken, made up most of the pratfalls and hairbreadth escapes as he went along...
...Secretary Vassili Zubilin who first asked him to become a Soviet spy in 1943. From then on real life and reel life were sometimes indistinguishable. There were tales of a coded message in which the word Cinerama really meant "You are in danger. Come home at once." There were hairbreadth escapes; i.e., one day in Moscow while Morros was in conference with Soviet Spy Chief Lavrenty P. Beria, an incoming message accused him of disloyalty. Boris charmed the Russians into believing that the American woman who had squealed on him was merely jealous...
...chairman of the Republican Committee on Committees, to make the choice. Ordinarily, the nod would have gone to the Republican with the greater seniority. Bricker's dilemma: both Ives and Watkins were sworn into the Senate on Jan. 3, 1947. Technically Ives could claim a hairbreadth of seniority because he had held previous legislative office (New York state), but Ives was no man to pull a technicality on an opponent of Arthur Watkins' caliber. Bricker's suggestion: Would the Senators agree to settle the matter in the classic Senate tradition in such cases, i.e., by flipping...
...doing, and correct themselves if necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical calculations in a fraction of a second, gauges that check fractions of a hairbreadth with a tiny beam of light...
...show of unruffled calm and laid the cornerstone for a new municipal hospital. At the same time Cubans added a new word to their vocabularies, inspired by Aureliano Sánchez Arango's fifth escape from arrest: it was aurelianada, meaning an escape carried out in a hairbreadth, spine-tingling manner...