Word: hairbreadths
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Fellow airmen called him "Earthquake McGoon"-the burly, black-browed man with the big laugh and the outspoken contempt for the quiet life. Earthquake was born to trouble and hairbreadth escapes...
...room was tense as the vote was taken. Only after a recount was the Wilson motion voted down by a hairbreadth: 109-111. The revolt, biggest since the war against the Labor leadership, was not confined to Bevanites. It included many victims of two costly world wars, who deeply distrusted putting guns into the hands of Germans; many who worried that the rearmed Germans might attempt to reunite with East Germany by force and set off another war; some who argued (like Bevan) that the West had gone to Berlin unwilling to bargain away the twelve West German divisions...
Navarre organized a spy and counterspy ring which was never uncovered during the Nazi occupation, although he had a series of hairbreadth escapes. Once, when he had a rendezvous with an agent in Paris' gloomy old Gare St. Lazare, the man failed to appear. He had been seized by the Germans, and they had squeezed out of him the word of the appointment with Navarre. There were six Gestapo men in the station looking for the spymaster. But Navarre, scenting the new wind, coolly joined a long line of ticket buyers, stood on a crowded platform reading a newspaper...
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...