Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publicly reviled at home. Engaging in a shrewd game of stalling and sliding, Shamir, who got his start as a leader in the Jewish underground in pre-1948 Palestine, managed to avoid an open confrontation with his U.S. allies: he neither formally rejected their proposal nor moved an inch closer to it. At the same time he managed to create the general impression that his differences with the U.S. were a mere ripple in an otherwise harmonious friendship. The Reagan Administration too seemed eager to put the best possible light on the meetings. "What I am happy to tell...
...surviving at least five years. As the disease spreads, however, the odds of survival drop sharply. Thus cancer experts agree that a woman's best hope for a cure, whatever her age, lies in finding tumors early. Mammography can detect tumors as small as an eighth of an inch in diameter. By contrast, most cancers detected by patients themselves are at least half an inch in diameter, and have been growing for eight to ten years, says Dr. Ferris Hall of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The larger the tumor, the higher the probability that it has already spread...
...half dozen posts and missed by an inch three dozen other times," Harvard Captain Steve Armstrong said. "It just didn...
...weekend. Meanwhile, the Harvard players will head to Florida or New York or wherever their spring breaks take them, dreaming of what might have been had a few of those pucks on the goal-line been tapped in. Or a few of those post shots had slipped a half-inch to the right or left and into...
Katarina Witt is the most extreme example in recent memory, with a ballerina's body and a model's features; her performance Saturday night made the most of her seductive looks. Swathed in a red dress with black sequins, her face layered with an inch of rouge and at least as much eyeshadow, Witt cut a striking figure as she skated onto the ice. After a few minor spins and jumps she entered the second sequence of her program, the memorable part--she kicked, she tossed her head, she waved her arms, she smiled. She looked compelling and sexy...