Word: whisker
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...team came within a whisker of getting an NCAA bid, an unheard of achievement for a Harvard team...
...Kwiatkowski, who also paid $210,000 for the Calumet name, announced that he would keep the farm's staff and operate it as before. "When I saw this place being dismantled, it was an offense to me," he told more than 3,000 cheering spectators. "Not a whisker of this farm will be changed...
...edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins of a primitive fort. Using ground-penetrating radar and sounding devices, the explorers discovered extensive ruins underneath...