Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign policy, the Soviet Union has been checked: between 1974 and 1980, Communist forces gobbled up ten countries, from Viet Nam to Afghanistan. On our watch, they have not seized an inch more of territory, and Grenada returned to the fold of free nations...
...long you been in this country? An inch...
...Parkton, Md., nine stubby, stemless glasses, narrower at the top than at the bottom, are lined up. Behind them stand nine uncorked bottles of California red wine, their labels obscured by foil wraps. The critic rinses the glasses with wine from three of the bottles. Then he pours an inch or so of red liquid from the first bottle into the first glass and holds it up to the light. "Good color," he says, "but that's rarely a problem with California wines." He swirls the glass fiercely for a second or two and inhales. "Not much wood...
ALBION every inch the hip poet, carries his role with both energy and aplomb. His presentation of the haughty Oscar Wilde aesthete with Kerouac funkiness lets him get away with singing "You're only hip enough/If you understand the stuff/That Allen Ginsberg writes" to Sullivan's classical music...
...said Israel should not "give up one inch" of territory to neighboring Arab nations until it receives assurances of peace. He said World War II and much of Adolph Hitler's campaign to annihilate the Jewish race could have been thwarted by greater military preparedness in the West...