Word: inch-by-inch
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Harold M. Ickes was midway through a typical profanity-laced cell-phone call on the inch-by-inch battle for the Democratic presidential nomination recently, when he peered over his glasses and demanded, "This call is off the record...
...third segment of her memoirs, Esmerelda Santiago writes about her years after high school. It is a time of immense change for the young woman, who inch-by-inch gains independence from her sprawling family and strong-willed mother, only to fall into the arms of an equally possessive older man who dominates her life for nearly a decade. Free. 6:30 pm. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts...
...writing process is a sort of inch-by-inch trench warfare done to look easy. I write painstakingly to make it look effortless,” he says...
...test that must be passed to get to tomorrow. (It's the difference between two views of North Korea: the Bush Administration's and South Korea's.) To put it another way: Western filmmakers are looking for infantile or cartoon solutions; the Asians are the grownups, the realists, the inch-by-inch copers...
CANADA More Murders Police conducting an "inch-by-inch" search of a pig farm 32 km from Vancouver turned up more evidence in the murder case against Robert Pickton, who was already facing a double murder charge. The new evidence enabled police to bring an additional three counts of first-degree murder against Pickton, who is so far the only person charged in relation to the disappearances of up to 50 women from the east end area of downtown Vancouver since...