Word: hairsbreadth
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...myself now," Winslet says. "With these roles, I've just closed a big chapter in my life. I feel that only in the last two years could I look someone in the eye and say, 'I know how to act' and really maybe mean it." She hesitates for a hairsbreadth. "Notice I said maybe...
...have the opportunity to choose to learn, if not live here. The unhappiness over forced commuting, though not mysterious, often seems to stem from the same unwarrented awe for things Crimson that afflicts a large proportion of on-campus residents. Students who missed a standard acceptance here by a hairsbreadth are no doubt capable of getting into other reputable institutions of higher education. An offer from Byerly Hall, especially a qualified one, should not be irresistible...
...weeks of his life are run-on reminders of his inferiority. No luck. No chance. And of course-as a connoisseur of the hairsbreadth art of stand-up comedy will tell you-no respect. These components of Rodney Dangerfield's fractured comic mask form one of the unlikeliest success stories around. Dangerfield was a has-been even before he was anyone at all. "I dropped out of show business once," he often confesses in his act. "But nobody noticed...
Sophomores Katherine Fulton and Andy Okamura came a hairsbreadth away from being the day's only casualties. After booting the first set 3-6, the pair was down 6-5 in stanza two. They tied it up but then got back into trouble when the tie-breaker knotted up at 3-3. Fulton and Okamura finally prevailed in the tie-breaker 5-3 to take set two 7-6, and then they stroked their way to a 6-3 win in the finale...
...SPECTRE of four more years followed close behind me as a friend and I looked for a T.V. set on which to watch the election returns. It seemed like a long time since 1968, that year of exploding convention and the hairsbreadth election. So many things had changed, so many things had happened...