Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Council Director Albert E. Rees agreed that "part" of the increase was justified, but pointedly left it up to the company to do something about the rest. At a meeting in Philadelphia last week, Speer told Rees of his plan for an inch-back: a series of reductions that would have the effect of cutting the size of the original increase from 4.7% overall back to 4%, plus a promise to hold the price line for at least six months, barring "major unforeseen economic events...
...handguns rather than rifles for hunting or for sporting purposes is limited, however, forcing gun lovers to resort to "give them an inch and they'll take a mile" arguments. Cassidy says pressure for handgun controls is a "charade" and the "people who want to get rid of guns entirely are just starting on handguns. After that they'll go much further...
...Embree supplied the biggest fireworks of the field day. He spearheaded a Harvard sweep in the high jump by soaring seven feet, one inch for an indoor Crimson record...
...case of gout or rheumatism, that his hand was relatively useless. More morbid conjecturers claim that he had a bad case of the claw--his hand tightened up into a gruesome eagle-grip. But the wildest theory I've heard yet was that he had a thirty-eight inch cock. Of course this is mere speculation--nobody really knows for sure what compelled Napoleon to do all the things he did. But George Bernard Shaw had some ideas of his own about the "Corsican ogre" as he once called him, and they're all in a real good, though short...
...high jump, Harvard's strongest event, All-Ivy leaper Mel Embree and John McCullough will provide the Crimson with a powerful one-two punch. Embree has cleared seven feet and placed seventh in the NCAA championship last spring. McCullough is not far behind with a 6-foot 10-inch leap to his credit...