Word: whisker
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...Alumni came within a whisker of upsetting Hal Ulen's Varsity mermen last year and only succumber by a 34 to 32 score, and this season the grads are again going to provide serious opposition...
...Dooley Wilson irresistibly suggests, is somewhere in between. Lucifer is further abetted by a sort of diabolical advertising agency where hellish "idea men" plan new campaigns of temptation. Their idea for Dooley Wilson is a winning ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes. In the end he escapes perdition-by a whisker...
...through a balky House last July, found out that there are more ways than one of killing a cat. Behind the well-oiled State machine of District Judge David Chavez Jr. (who sent Dempsey to Congress), Brother Dennis Chavez won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator by a whisker. Roared Dempsey : "[There will be] 30 to 40 FBI agents in Santa Fe by nightfall. . . . The people have been intimidated...
...Artist Krans below his buffalo-horn mustache sported a full goatee, or Imperial. Reaching its greatest glory on the person of Vittorio Emanuele II, this type of whisker was named for the slightly less imposing beard of Napoleon...
Students of the whisker,* noting that not one Bishop Hiller cut his facial hair alike, observed the following beards on the following faces...