Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that he leaned back, fired up a big black cigar and invited the committee to do its worst. In two days of questioning him it made almost no real effort to shake his denials or probe his failure to recollect details...
...path, a new way of its own. But paths, they say in New England, are made by going around rocks. The Western world had found what it wanted to avoid. In the warlike peace, it had discovered a little of a new pride in its old standards. It had almost learned new humility in which the Germans and the Japanese, for all the evil they had done, might become comrades in the struggle against evil...
Other Parisian hosts, however, had little time for such sentimental regrets. This year's tourists might be better behaved than the old, carefree variety, but during the 1949 season they had flocked to France almost 3,000,000 strong to swell the nation's economy with $195 million worth of foreign exchange and provide the biggest tourist year since 1927. Every Sunday for two months 25,000 gawkers had shuffled through the Palace at Versailles to gape at the Sun King's old splendors. The Eiffel Tower had not had so many visitors since 1889. Bus tours...
...Neutral is packed to the boards with incredible adventure and impressive evidence of human fortitude, but it is written without a note of excitement, understated to the point of monotone. For that reason, and by the simplicity of its statement, it makes most first-person war books seem almost shrill...
...where he learned about the simple duties man owes to man, of Chan, the Nacheetls' God of the Universe, and of Jesucristo Salvador too. But when he left his village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost anywhere in Central America. He tells how it happened with Carlos...