Word: inch-by-inch
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...search of the crash site, roughly the length of three football fields, "will be an inch-by-inch thing," Halterman said from the NTSB's makeshift command center in the Sioux City Convention Center...
Iran's inch-by-inch recovery of its territory began last September, when it broke the grip of the Iraqi army around the key oil refinery city of Abadan. The Iranians also launched a series of successful attacks on Iraqi positions along the southern segment of the border between the two countries. In addition, the Iranians have recovered a total of about 155 sq. mi. of land at different points along the 625-mile front...
...pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes that can dissolve tissue and, if they leak out, cause severe inflammation. Fortunately that vital organ escaped damage. Then the doctors ran their gloved hands along the entire 20-ft. length of the small intestine and the 5 ft. of large intestine. Typically this inch-by-inch examination is repeated two or three times to make certain no injury escapes notice. Any bleeding vessels are quickly sewed and any holes in the intestine are clamped. The first objective is to halt the loss of blood to keep the patient from slipping into shock...
...surprise Israeli blitz will not succeed, because Israel is already at the limits of its natural military frontiers. If the Israelis cross the Suez, the Egyptians plan to take advantage of Israel's overextended supply lines by forcing a prolonged campaign inside Egypt?in Nasser's words, an "inch-by-inch war." It is historically such a Russian concept of defense by attrition that he just possibly did not think of it himself. Says Nasser's confidant, Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hasanein Heikal: "If the Israelis want to take Cairo, Damascus or Amman?and I pray...
REPULSION. In London, gentlemen callers seldom survive their yen for a deadly blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve), whose inch-by-inch descent into madness is unreeled with monstrous art by Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water...