Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tone on one other recent occasion: when a delegation of onetime U.S. foreign policy officials visited Moscow last month. "That sort of sweetness and light is predictable," grumbled a Reagan team member about Percy's reception in Moscow. "But I don't think they gave an inch on foreign policy...
...proceeding to box in the other runners and establish a snailish 2:80 pace at mid-point. Annoyed by his opponent's unwillingness to push, Dixon pulled out 15 yards ahead when the gun sounded for the bell lap and Lake's attempt to repeat his just-by-an-inch defeat of Dixon two years ago collapsed abysmally...
...detonation speeds forward, faster than the blink of an eye, it presses one rail against the other, confining the magnetic field between them in an ever smaller space and imparting still greater velocity to plasma and projectile. Teams led by Physicists Ronald Hawke and Max Fowler have fired half-inch projectiles down a railgun's square-bore barrel at an estimated 10 km per sec. They believe velocities of 150 km per sec. could be reached...
...when Mike Ernst and Scott McCabe (not Paul Scheper as reported earlier) collided on a kickoff return. The Elis recovered the fumble at the Crimson 25-yd. line, and a valiant Harvard defensive effort clamped down for seven plays until Yale captain John Nitti cracked over from the six-inch line on fourth-and-goal...
...recover, no second or third debate in which to recoup. With so many sharp differences between the two men on issues, personalities and styles of governing, should a potentially historic choice be made on the basis of which candidate flubs an answer or looks more presidential on a 17-inch screen...