Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haiti, caught between Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In Miami last week, U.S. Supervising Customs Agent Joseph A. Fortier reported as a matter of fact that the arms business is booming. Many of the arms are bought in Northern centers, such as Newark, New York and Chicago, but almost all of them are shipped through Miami. For lack of an adequate staff, says Fortier, four out of every five shipments got through...
...fifth of the congregation were teen-agers." Then Graham, who presided over a mammoth crusade in New York City in 1957, came close to admitting that it had been a big flop: "It was like a flea crawling on an elephant. New York is so big that it absorbs almost anything. It's like China in that respect. Our type of crusade makes a far greater impact on a smaller city , . . Perhaps if we try it on a borough-to-borough basis, New York can be reached...
...they done it? Last week, resting in Anchorage, the four were almost too busy planning new assaults to answer. Said Sinclair: "We usually just joke, 'to get away from tidal waves.' You can't describe climbing to people. They don't have anything to compare it with...
Wherever they looked, Government economists saw almost breathtaking change. Personal income jumped $29 billion over the second quarter of 1958 to an annual rate of $380 billion, a new high. Industrial output rose 22 percentage points over June 1958, to 154% of the 1947-49 averages. As consumers opened their purses, retail trade in the first six months jumped $7.5 billion to a new high of $102.5 billion. In the process, it gave a long-delayed boost to many an industry that earlier watched the parade of recovery go by. TV setmakers, for example, expected 1959 shipments to exceed...
...pace seldom slackens-thanks to the competence of Director Otto Preminger. The actors-particularly Stewart and Remick-handle themselves like the glossy professionals they are; but a number of important scenes are grandly swiped by that slick old (68) amateur, Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge almost as memorably as he played himself on TV during his historic fracas with the late Senator McCarthy...