Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bench a door opened and black-robed Judge Harold Medina, a firmly fleshed man with elegant mustaches, lifted eyebrows and large, melancholy eyes, appeared. He seated himself in his high-backed chair. Then the solemn jury of four men and eight women, who had been deliberating for almost seven hours, filed into the jury box, and the clerk of the court faced the housewife in the chair of Juror No. 1. She stood up. "How say you?" the clerk asked...
...Almost nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
...even gave up translating Latin, which is one of his hobbies. Only once did he come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
...there were already signs that the crop, while large, would not be as big as forecast. In Iowa,the nation's biggest corn producer, the corn borer had done more damage than ever before. A dry summer had also hurt a bit. The Department of Agriculture lopped off almost 80 million bushels from its original lowa crop estimate of 662 million bushels. Then one day last week, the wind came...
Alumnus Lane Barton pushed the pace up to 36 for the final sprint, and almost succeeded in pulling back Tech, but his boat lacked the drive to overtake them before reaching the finish line at Long-fellow Bridge...