Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost from the start of the parliamentary campaign, Australia's Labor government had had its back to the ropes. Australians were plainly fed up with widening bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
...candidates' door-to-door canvassers, on their rounds of South Bradford's uniform grey stucco houses, could tell almost before they spoke to the people inside whether they were for Labor or for the Tories. South Bradford's class distinctions are expressed, among other ways, by the people's attitude toward doors. Most working people-unlike those who consider themselves middle class-use the back door to come & go, reserving the front door for important occasions like funerals. If the canvassers found a front door opening stiffly and creakily, they were sure of finding a worker...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky left New York aboard a U.S. ship, bound for his homeland after almost three months in New York as chief of the Soviet delegation to the U.N. His parting tip to three porters who carried his mountain of luggage aboard: $40. His parting words on shipboard: "I want to wish all the 'American people a Happy New Year...
...west Texas, the five or six daily editorials in the Abilene Reporter-News (circ. 35,241) are often as important conversational topics as oil, cotton, cattle and sandstorms. The folksy, shrewd comments on politics, literature, science and almost everything else are the work of Frank Grimes, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), cadaverous editor of the Reporter-News. Last week, Editorialist Grimes, 58, celebrated his 35th year on the paper by summing up "15,000,000 words later" everything he had learned about editorial writing...
...Then we dash off some little twirp of a squib that we're almost ashamed to print and we please or antagonize our clientele no end. You never know...