Word: inched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together a compromise: the King approved Feisal's budget and Feisal assumed responsibility for the King's debts; Editor al Jasir was freed from jail, and the King conceded the importance of going through channels. Thus Saudi Arabia, still very much a family business, edged another painful inch toward constitutional monarchy, if not toward democracy...
...just loose change, an extra penny, and the average reader doesn't care." Emboldened by their triumph-worth some $5,000 extra revenue a day to the Free Press and the News, $4,000 to the Times-Detroit publishers could foresee further steps in their painless, inch-penny path to the summit of a dime...
...bracket, the tables showed, men average 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weigh 159 Ibs. Height remains constant through ages 85-89, but by then the average weight has dropped to 148 Ibs. In the early 905, men average an inch shorter and tip the scales at a wispy 136 Ibs. Women aged 65-69 average 5 ft. 3 in. tall and weigh 141 Ibs.; those in the upper 80s are an inch shorter and weigh...
...seemed chipper, jumping around and throwing things almost as if she were fresh from a peaceful monkey house. But after her moment of glory, she was flown off to Fort Knox, Ky., where Army Dr. Thomas Davis noticed that one of the electrodes inserted under her skin, a ¾-inch-square bit of silver-plated wire mesh, had started a slight infection. It was decided to operate, using a general anesthetic, trichloroethylene...
...pulling its leg: anyone mentioned in the Cuban social register or newspaper society pages would have to pay a tax for the honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister Lopez Fresquet (who is in the Havana Social Register) as a great economist and intellectual, and then noted: "Comrade Rufo now owes...