Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fishing boat seeking to snare an exotic fish, Mizar put overboard an array of devices: sonar, electronic scanners, cameras equipped with powerful strobe lights, and a magnetic sensor that reacts to the presence of metal on the seabed. For two months Mizar patiently towed its paraphernalia across every inch of the ten-mile-square area until it had detected, scanned and thoroughly photographed the Soviet submarine...
Suddenly, unexpectedly, the endless war in South Viet Nam took a dramatic new turn last week. Abandoning a 20-year government policy of fighting for every inch of South Vietnamese territory, President Nguyen Van Thieu surrendered fully one-fourth of his country -seven provinces with an estimated population of more than 1.7 million people-to the attacking Communists. Dusty district roads and coastal highways were choked with countless thousands of frightened civilians clutching their possessions and fleeing their homes in the largest exodus since Viet Nam was divided in 1954. Meanwhile, reinforced North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces mobilized what...
...tends to be emotional, a fighter. In debate he won't give an inch...
...court, gave it title and rights to minerals from the coastline outward to sea. In 1953 Congress returned to the states their rights out to the three-mile limit, but no farther. In U.S. v. Maine, the court last week said that the states are not entitled to an inch more than Congress gave them. Thus it cleared the way for the Interior Department to start the leasing procedures for the Baltimore Canyon, a promising offshore area stretching from New Jersey to Virginia...
...opening, and he finds his full share of them-or makes them. Only Robert Redford in The Way We Were was so adept at keeping his balance. Redford did it by playing off Streisand and cooling her out. Caan goes straight at her, battling for every breath, every inch of screen space...