Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitchell had blown a chance to win in regulation when he missed an 18-inch putt on the 17th hole. He finished the 72 holes in a tie with the more renowned Nicklaus...
...edges of the pool. Often when I came in to hand in my ticket and get my locker key I'd have to go in search of one of these women; they were forever making and drinking cups of tea. One of the boys would move his head an inch or two in the direction of the staffroom and sing out, "Bridget, finish your...
...Buchanan's two automatic five-inch guns, with a maximum range of twelve miles, is trained to starboard. A voice rasps over the ship's loudspeaker: "Stand by. Mount 52. Two salvos." Five seconds later, the gun shreds the night. A pale orange flame shoots from the muzzle, and a 70-lb. shell whistles through the air en route to a target more than three miles inland from the Vietnamese coastline...
...could well rise as much as it did last year (3.4%); more important, nonfood commodities (the area covered by Phase II controls) could well rise 3%. On top of the continuing rises expected for utility rates and interest rates, the prices of manufactured goods are now expected to inch up later this year. At a meeting this week, the Price Commission will examine several ideas to strengthen controls...
...does RCA get four electronic signals from two walls in a groove only 21 thousandths of an inch wide? Essentially by electronically scrambling the sounds picked up from four separate microphones, imprinting them on the groove walls, then separating them precisely into four signals that are fed into four speakers. Heard at RCA'S Manhattan studios, the new disk plays only 20 minutes (the company hopes to have it up to the standard 30 before long), but its output is vibrant, clear, well-defined, surprisingly flexible...