Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harlem's Sugar Ray Robinson, welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion of the world, danced in his corner almost unnoticed. All eyes in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium were on the challenger, Cuba's Gerardo ("Kid Gavilan") Gonzales. Most of the 27,805 customers seemed to think that the Cuban had a real chance for the crown...
...exhibition tells the story of a man who almost singlehanded broke the tradition of his time & place, taught Venetian art to loosen its stiff Byzantine and Gothic joints. In his Pietà with St. John, which shows Mary supporting the body of Jesus while the dazed John stares into the distance, Bellini brought the tightlipped, hot-house Byzantine virgins of earlier Venetian painting out into the clear sunlight of the Italian countryside...
...Kaplan had a wheeze, and sometimes her breathing made a sort of crowing noise. Doctors at Manhattan's Woman's Hospital knew there was something wrong with her, but did not know what. Her first day at home, Sandy turned white, then blue around the mouth, and almost suffocated. Her mother, a practicing attorney, learned to give Sandy only a couple of ounces of food at a time. That meant 20 feedings...
...cheat . . . The brevity in Woolley's batting is a thing of pulse and spirit, not to be checked by clocks, but only to be apprehended by imagination. He is always about to lose his wicket; his runs are thin-spun ... An innings by him is almost too unsubstantial for this world...
...piteous lamentation of the starving peasant, [his] face was as though a light had been turned down inside; at the cry 'Cold! Cold!' the cheeks . . . became sunken; the body contracted as though intensely chilled, the hands clenched, and, surely, the voice itself was pinched ... An eloquent animation, almost sculptural...