Word: inch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-thumbed Bible, he scrambled over the fence from Pennsylvania Avenue and managed to scamper 15 yards onto the White House lawn before being met by at least eight Secret Service agents and uniformed guards. Thereupon the slightly built, 35-year-old gate crasher whipped out a three-inch knife from his Bible and slashed one officer's face and another's arm. Wielding long billy clubs like cattle prods, the guards warily circled Henry, poked the knife out of his hand and forced him to the ground. They then took him off to jail; later a magistrate...
Henry Fonda is one of the very few actors who could dive into this two-inch-deep pool of a play and emerge from it with an Olympic gold medal. A frothy freshet of one-liners does not keep most of this stultifyingly shallow play from being poisonously dull...
...Francisco Entrepreneur Gary Dahl sold a million Pet Rocks at $4 each in 1975. This month, after three years of living off his profits, Dahl is returning to the packaged humor market with a new product: one-inch-square acrylic cubes of Red Dirt, to be sold at $5.95 each...
Dahl says the dirt comes from mainland China clinging to the roots of flowers and vegetables shipped to Hong Kong. Says Dahl: "If enough Americans buy a square inch of Red China dirt, before long we'll have removed the entire country from under their noses. What I'm proposing is one of the sneakiest conquests in the history of the world." He adds: "This is the year of the dirt-not the horse or the cow or the turkey." Well, maybe the turkey...
Teso, Cambridge Police Chief Leo Davenport, and Conrad Fagone, public works commissioner, said they expect their snow removal plans to be adequate this year because they do not expect another 40-inch snowfall like that recorded during last February's blizzard...