Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birthday Present. A fourth in the seventh race sent Gene into the point lead, but five other skippers were still close enough to pass his narrow margin, notably last year's runner-up, Charles 111 of Mantoloking, N.J. Aboard Wisp in the last race, Gene lay back at the starting line, careful not to jump the cannon. He got off well into a 14-knot southerly, rounded the windward mark of the 8|-mi. triangular course, billowed out his spinnaker to catch the wind for the second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie...
...aircraft carrier, they must do it just right. This puts a strain on the landing signal officer. He must judge the speed of each approaching jet with great accuracy and wave it off for another try if it is moving either too fast or too slow. He has little margin for error and he must make his decision in a split second...
...elections made Adenauer Chancellor by the irreducible margin of one vote (his majority in the Bundestag: 202 out of 402). His governing coalition has never commanded a steady majority, yet for four years Adenauer has given Germany the most stable government of any large nation in Europe. Most of the time he ruled by sheer force of character, ignoring hostile votes, whittling, down men whom he could not overawe, driving where he could not lead. He has the courage to be unpopular...
Footlights Theater (Fri 9:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Margin for Fair...
...about half of the eligible farmers voted, but their decision was clear-cut: for Government marketing quotas 361,000; against, 53,000. To throw the'quota machinery into gear, the favorable vote had to be at least two-thirds of the vote cast. It was 87.2%, the biggest margin U.S. farmers have ever given a Government grain-quota proposal...