Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orange was something less than a success after it first appeared on St. Patrick's Day, 1926, and a compensatory green was also short-lived). The thin lines were in turn eliminated. Now we are going one step further, reducing the red border by three-sixteenths of an inch. This gives the painting or photograph greater visual impact. To match it, the logotype has been made a degree bolder...
Leon Sharpe was another Crimson standout. He took first place in the long jump, hurling himself 22 feet 10 inches; and in the triple jump with a 40 foot 1/4 inch performance. Bill Bihrle's leap of 6 feet 6 inches in the high jump gave him an upset victory...
Anderson would recognize the Stamper family of Sometimes a Great Notion. "Never give a inch" is the clan motto. Their dogged nonconformity takes heed neither of political fashion nor social form. When a general strike is called among the lumbermen of their small Oregon town, the Stampers go right on working. The union pays a visit, and the head of the clan (Henry Fonda) makes congenially threatening remarks about "Commie pinkos who tell us when to cut." Replies the bookish union leader: "That's as good a statement of 19th century philosophy as I've ever heard...
...ended. Now he jokes easily. Recently, on a flight between Chicago and Salt Lake City, he was confronted in the aisle by a woman carrying a baby. Kennedy grinned and told the reporters with him, "Hey, get this." He elaborately faked kissing the baby, with a loud smooch an inch from the infant's cheek. Then he collapsed laughing in his seat...
...full grown (I haven't grown an inch since then.) A cop shot me six times point-blank on that job, as I was standing with my hands in the air. After the second shot, when I was certain that he was trying to murder me. I charged him. His gun was empty and he had only hit me twice by the time I had closed with him--Oh, get this wild nigger off me.' ...I had two comrades with me on that job. They both got away because of the exchange between the pigs...