Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israelis were disappointed that Sadat had not given one inch on that longstanding Arab demand. Nonetheless, they also had a strong new feeling that his trip had been so extraordinary that it was now their turn to respond in some creative way to the Egyptian President's gesture. Foreign Minister Dayan stressed repeatedly last week that Sadat had created "an hour of decision" for Israel and indeed all the Middle East. Said Dayan: "All the old concepts-proximity talks, shuttles-have fallen by the wayside and we have now been confronted with the need to decide, not just...
...than middling tall." But in the behemoth world of professional football, Pruitt, at 5 ft. 9 in. and 190 Ibs., is more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed him "Shorty"-Pruitt has been undersized and overly successful-an All-America and Pro-Bowl mote darting elusively through forests of giant defenders. Says Pruitt: "I've had to play at this size all my life. I've always been the smallest...
...disturbing-as if one of the figures in Seurat's Grande Jatte had turned from its Euclidean stillness and made a gesture of invitation. In terms of formal arrangement, it would be hard to imagine a more organized image than this: the chair could not be shifted an inch, or the angle of the girl's legs a degree, without some loss. But it is also a strangely equivocal picture, a filter of memory, dream and half-sublimated desire, without a trace of sentimentality. It is not a "modern" painting. But no account of modern art that leaves...
...rest of the quarter, the teams slugged it out without a score. Harvard's defense bent badly, but refused to break, while Yale's stingy defenders wouldn't give Brown and company an inch. At one point, Harvard failed to move after recovering an Eli fumble at midfield...
...proposed homeowner tax credits for installing insulation, Coleman figured he could at least afford to make his four-bedroom house more energy efficient. But when he went to the lumber store to buy 750 sq. ft. of fiber-glass insulation for his attic, he could not get one square inch. The store had been sold out for weeks, and no one had any idea when new shipments would arrive. Gripes Coleman: "It's ridiculous. I've been waiting for nearly three months, and now winter is almost here again...