Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driven up Truman Avenue (formerly Division Street), the citizenry lined the sidewalks to welcome him back. Then, with three weeks of vacation ahead, a blue sky above the palms, and a white beach, an airy house and a green lawn at his disposal, he began doing almost nothing...
...almost the first time on a vacation he did virtually no paper work-only one White House pouch left the base during the week and it contained routine documents. There were nightly motion pictures at the cottage, but the President, no movie fan, seldom stayed up to watch...
...deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...
...Almost as soon as he arrived in London, Oklahoma's loud-lowing Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas called a press conference. During his six-week, 14-country tour of Europe, he had reprimanded the Swedes for not entertaining him properly, had miffed Belgian reporters by exhibiting (but not opening) ostentatiously displayed bottles of Scotch whisky, and had trampled other European toes by praising Spain's Franco and calling for rearmament of the Germans...
...each dining hall. He made several suggestions for improvement within the present system. Some of them, such as toasters on the serving table, were partially carried out. Others, such as steam tables to replace the electrically heated serving tables, were rejected. Siler also commented that he considered it almost impossible to compute costs when students can take any amount of meat and milk they want...