hairbreadth escape
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They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harold Lloyd, the Hairbreadth Harry of the silent comics, had a hairbreadth escape when prints of his early films, which he valued at $2 million, went up in explosive fire in his private film vault.
From Time Magazine Archive
With MacArthur's help, Annalee Jacoby made a hairbreadth escape from the Philippines.
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With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It was a hairbreadth escape, and I'm mighty grateful."
From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
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