Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the Kremlin was preparing to take almost defenseless Bessarabia from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
...Moselle Sector, next to Luxembourg, penetration was "almost three miles"; in the Lauter Sector, next to the Rhine, "about one mile...
...when various parts of an advancing line meet heavy resistance, they should halt; the others, finding weakness, should penetrate and, as the surrounded enemy capitulates, join forces beyond. Usable in big or little units, infiltration was the plan of Ludendorff's big push on March 21, 1918, which almost licked the Allies...
...that other war, reminisced these veterans, there was nothing at sea like Germany's raiders. They behaved far differently from submarines. The raiders' game was almost merry: a game of masquerade, chase, chivalry, a game with rules,-grim outlawry with a face of fun and even a little virtue. Take, for instance, the old Emden...
...notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf...