Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These varied enterprises marked the latest Navy moves in its increasingly difficult publicity fight for a "reasonable appropriation." Last year, a highbrass conference in Key West decided that the three armed services would divvy up the defense budget almost equally, but ever since then, naval officers have had an increasing suspicion that their service was being cased out of its hallowed position as the nation's "first line of defense...
...This is the work of [a] magician!" cries the madman, and in that moment, almost before Cervantes appears to know it, Don Quixote's comical quest becomes also the serious search for what is real behind the appearances of this world. The search leads him, at the end of Part One, to a cage in which, like a wild animal, he is shipped home...
After three years of operation in Austria, the seminar has an alumni body of almost 1000 in 17 countries of both East and West. The students who attended the summer sessions--and they were not students in the ordinary sense, since many already had their Doctor's Degrees and were established in journalism, civil service, theater, art, music, or teaching--have spend six weeks studying all aspects of American culture with leading American professors. This academic focus makes the Seminar unique among organization working for international understanding, for it bases friendship and appreciation of other viewpoints on common work land...
Despite their slow-healing injuries, Weiss and Goldstein played almost all the way for Harvard. After the game, however, Coach Munro feared they might have put themselves back a week by playing with injuries...
When Mr. Ives has complete quiet, as he had from the almost packed symphony Hall, he really shows his genius as a ballad singer. He went through his program of 18 songs without straining his voice once even for the highest notes. When he had finished his program and the stamping of feet had begun he returned to sing nine more...