Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternating music from the Marine band, at one end of the field, and the Marine drum and bugle corps, at the other end, the marching companies move in swiftly, line up and fix silver bayonets on their M-1 rifles. They march in quick 30-inch steps, keeping their feet within two inches of the ground in a motion they call "slide and glide." Momentarily, the parade deck is cast into darkness. High on the ramparts of the east barracks, seven red-coated trumpeters, bathed in a floodlight, blow a fanfare. The musicians of the drum and bugle corps take...
...only way out of the mess, decided Bank President Ralph Comstock Jr., was to reconstruct each check, shred by quarter-inch shred. So the workers began their chore, segregating the slices by color, length, width, signatures and amounts, then matching and pasting the checks together one by painstaking one. More than 2,000 checks worth about $300,000 have been reassembled. To speed things up the bank is now planning to spread the work into two shifts. Even so, it will be weeks before the job is finally completed...
...More DDT. Chief defoliator is the two-inch-long larva of the gypsy moth, a fuzzy brown caterpillar with blue and red spots that daily consumes one square foot of tree leaves (but not farm crops). Almost any kind of tree leaf from maple and pine to magnolia is meat for its mandibles. What makes the gluttonous insect so Jiard to control is that it has lacked natural enemies. It was imported from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869 by Leopold Trouvelot, a misguided naturalist who hoped to crossbreed the hardy moths with silkworms and start a new textile industry. Instead...
...system could not be any worse. "We are already overnumbered," wrote Munich's respectable Stüddeutsche Zeitung, "and who would have objections to a simplification of the system?" As it is, anyone moving from one city to another in West Germany must fill out an 18-inch-long questionnaire, in triplicate, first to deregister and then again to reregister...
...seldom seen." Best of all, Doc is really built. His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take on-oh, say-a hundred armed men at a time and flip them about like Frisbees with his bare hands...