Word: hairbreadth
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After four days of intense deliberation, the jury was only a hairbreadth away from a verdict in the federal trial of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Once confident of a hung jury, Cohn paced nervously outside Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Court, fretting that "all bets are off." Then, in a stunning and unpredictable turn of the wheel, one juror's father suddenly died. After excusing her, Judge Archie O. Dawson declared a mistrial. Cohn, for the time being at least, was home free...
...into five or six half-hour parts, this movie could serve for that all but vanished art form, the Saturday afternoon serial. It might not top Tarzan of the Apes, but as a Child's Garden of Gibbon it obstreperously fills the bill. There are poisonings, chariot races, hairbreadth escapes, and slaughtered barbarians enough to satisfy the most bloodthirsty ten-year...
...Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, resigned to run for Governor in 1958; he lost, and then there were two. In that same election, Goodwin Knight, who had succeeded Warren as Governor, was defeated for the Senate, leaving just one. That was Richard Nixon, who, after coming within a hairbreadth of the presidency, ran for Governor last year, lost, and recently moved to New York. That left none...
...this gives promise of, nothing more than a predictable tapestry of hairbreadth hurry and Navy derring-do, suitable for eventual framing in Hollywood. But like many another literary ship before her, the San Pablo offers a readymade image of a larger society. Both as a licensed literary microcosm and a U.S. naval vessel, she soon turns out to be far from regulation...
...California and had thus been elected President of the United States. (Sorensen was right with the news, wrong with his facts: absentee ballots shifted California's electoral votes to Richard Nixon a few days later, but Illinois finished in Kennedy's column and clinched his hairbreadth victory.) The two men, soon joined by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, sat on the bed and mulled over the early-morning statistics. There were no congratulations, no jubilation: the three were much too tired, and Kennedy's triumph was much too thin. Afterward, the President-elect waved his aides away...