Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airliner swept off a Rangoon runway last week and wheeled toward Russia with a drugged, closely guarded wreck of a man as cargo. The man aboard: Soviet Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine. whose bizarre experience resembled Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina's "jump to freedom" from the Russian consulate in Manhattan almost eleven years ago-except that Colonel Stryguine did not make...
...arms directly from Communist sources, and we have gained nothing.'' Added another official: "If it is going to be a case of British soldiers or British allies being killed with British arms, then that will come about anyway, because the Iraqi army is now almost entirely equipped with British arms...
...Almost seven years after he was booted off Egypt's throne, ex-King Farouk, a puffy and myopic 39, moved a step farther from ever returning to Cairo in royal style. By special decree of Monaco's sympathetic Prince Rainier III, stateless Playboy Farouk, now a Monte Carlo sport, became a Monacan citizen...
...residents, two weekly newspapers, a radio station, and a busy branch of the Bank of America. Even in winter, a parade of chain-clad cars and as many as 30 Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers...
...memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there a difference between Best Western Actor with Black Stetson and Best-Dressed Cowboy Excluding Canes and Ruffled Vests?" Almost everyone agreed with Angry Loser Ed Sullivan (his presentation of the brilliant Moiseyev Dancers went without a nod), who came away convinced that the academy's 4,000 members had again turned the election into a personal popularity contest...