Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cassill fails to seduce because cruel gods have ordained that a novelist shall not deal in occult matters in a realistic novel. Realism requires a two-inch sub-flooring, with studding not more than 18 inches apart. Besides, the author is much more adept with the occult...
...Donna, president of the Bobby Sherman Fan Club of Waltham. She hadn't slept for two nights, but had laid on her bed gazing through the semi-darkness, punctured only by her night light, at the pictures of Bobby which covered every square inch of wall space. Pictures of him even lined her bureau drawers. She considered Bobby her roommate. She had never heard of Frankie Avalon...
...persistant downpour over the weekend covered the field with over an inch of water in places and reduced the game to a sloppy, uncoordinated shoving match...
...division charged with advising the President when disorders have reached a point where federal action is necessary. Operating with a $274,000 budget, the Civil Disturbance Group uses 100 daily reports from the FBI and other agencies, 12 intelligence analysts, and a computer which puts out an eight-inch thick set of books on the riot potential of every city. The command post of the "Interdivisional information unit" on the sixth floor of the Justice Department rivals the Army's CIAD for intelligence purposes...
...shoes were hardly scuffed? Other questions arose. Why had the radioman at the temple disappeared at almost the same time Aimee had? And who was that thick-ankled woman who had spent ten days with him in a vine-covered cottage at Carmel? The scandal broke in six-inch headlines, and Aimee, her mother and the radioman were held for trial on conspiracy charges; but after eight months of priceless worldwide publicity, "a certain person of influence" was bought off for $6,000, according to Ma, and Aimee won a dismissal...