Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor in the "Bolivian incident." Christian Herter, then Acting Secretary of State, refused the offer. "Almost unanimously the press of Brazil asserted that even if a few U.S. Senators were unable to do so, the Brazilian people were quite capable of distinguishing between Bolivia and Brazil, and between Clare Boothe Luce and Mr. Luce...
CHICAGO AMERICAN : The resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as Ambassador to Brazil will have no effect on the welfare of the U.S. There had been no popular demand for her-return to public life, and it will not be difficult to find a substitute for Senator Wayne Morse-almost anybody would...
...Land-office business in April was up almost 200% over April...
Person. Tall (almost 5 ft. 10 in.) for a Chinese, thin, with greying hair and the pallid look of an anchorite, Liu is a Communist ideologue whom strangers in a roomful of people are apt to overlook. But Liu's voice is hard, his hand is heavy, his mind dogmatic and forceful. To Liu, the ideal Communist "bears the sorrows of the world now for the sake of later happiness; he toils now for the sake of later satisfaction; he doesn't wrangle with others whose lot is better; in times of adversity he can straighten...
...argument runs like this: a Wellesley student, if she really wants an academic discipline, does have a chance to work on her own if she proves her ability. She can concentrate upon almost anything she wishes, once she has gotten some broad lower-level humanities courses...