Word: inched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shorter" than regular size, which means that "you smoke a little less, you pay a little less." If that doesn't make it, there is always Armour Bacon Longs, which are "a couple millimeters bigger" because they "shrink a little less." Sighing, the Camel filters man shows an 18-inch-long cigarette and wonders, "Where will...
...that is not inspiration enough, girl watchers can contemplate the fact that the beauty pageants are growing bigger, if not better, in more ways than one. Back in 1921, the bust measurement of Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, was 30 inches. That's one inch less than Twiggy's and 61 less than the current titleholder...
Wilson's experiment suggests that extra inches are available to anyone who achieves increasing degrees of success, on campus or off. But apparently the success must be of considerable dimension. For even when he was Professor England, the visitor's estimated height still fell more than half an inch short of his actual height...
...headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired mob action...
...series of chambers from which pumps are continuously evacuating the air. By simply blowing a steady stream of inert gas past the final hole-the muzzle of the gun - he stops dirt and debris from being sucked back into the vacuum. No wider than a sixteenth of an inch, the electron beam, says Schumacher, can cut iron bars, granite blocks or slabs of concrete. Only requirement is that the gun be kept virtually on top of its target. From a half inch out, it can burrow up to four inches into the toughest stone in less than a minute...