Word: inch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recalls a shouting match two editors once had over a 90-inch feature on Cambridge elections...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffiers) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...hardware side, developments have been just as fruitful. As a testimony, last week I purchased 3Com's PalmPilot and already wonder how I lived without it. No longer do I lug around a three-inch binder with calendar, meeting minutes and financial info. Instead I slip the wallet sized Pilot into my pocket...
...Army's preoccupation had been the behavior of its sergeants, to the point where local commanders at Fort Leonard Wood had ordered the doors to sergeants' offices taken down as well. When the sergeants complained, the doors were put back. But the doorknobs were left off, leaving two-inch-wide peepholes so the doors could not be locked--and making it easier to keep tabs on the goings-on behind closed doors...
...JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial. There he sat, still as death, watery eyes, age spots, every inch an ordinary old man, except in his vile soul. Where was the international tribunal to bring this subhuman low before the world? Or was it thought sufficient that he appeared on television...