Word: inched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would not yield an inch. And in the wild melees shown on TV, few officers seemed to be around to urge a more temperate attitude...
...tailor-father. His dress runs to conservative dark suits. When he was Governor, Muskie invariably wore a clip-on bow tie, but he has since returned to four-in-hand ties. Though his tall, ruggedly handsome figure is an undoubted contribution to the image of the ticket, his five-inch advantage over Humphrey will inevitably invite Mutt and Jeff caricatures...
...moth's spikes, a scant 26 ten-thousandths of an inch long, provide it with an automatic lifesaving device. Without them, says Callahan, the slow and conspicuous insects would probably take wing during daylight. And if they did so, they would make themselves easy prey for birds...
Personally, I prefer one-inch sisal for the job. You get too many blisters on your hands from nylon...
Good Memories. Indeed, though his position papers and public pronouncements inch toward independence from the Johnson Administration, Humphrey himself vacillates, afraid that outright divorcement has perhaps even more dangers than advantages. "I do not intend to run for the office of President of the United States," he told a $500-a-plate dinner in Washington, "by turning my back on those who have stood with me." Tears filled his eyes and his voice cracked with emotion as he said that he had no intention of "repudiating the work of my party, my President and his predecessors...