Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce rate is almost three times that of Japan...
More than 200 witnesses testified, none of them for the defense. It was almost a year after authorities had announced the end of all action against "counter-revolutionaries...
...ordained Roman Catholic priest, Boganda was unfrocked after marrying his French secretary when he was serving in Paris as a Deputy to France's Assembly. While his country was still the territory of Ubangi-Shari, the French frequently took him to task for treating his Pygmy plantation workers almost as slaves. He was not above pretending to perform a miracle when an eclipse of the sun occurred, nor did he try to dissuade his people from the idea that he was immortal. To the French, he seemed at times one of the most exasperating men in Africa...
...coming of spring carries inevitable splinters of physical woe. Last week, a fortnight after he first winced at a pain in the shoulder, Red Sox Star Williams shambled glumly into Boston's Lahey Clinic. Doctors studied his pinched nerve, began treatments. Ever-hopeful Ted, who has been benched almost a dozen times in his long career by such ills as a broken collarbone, a fractured elbow, ankle sprains and virus attacks, hoped to be at the season's opener, April...
...Almost the Best. Last week, by his own exuberant calculation, Librarian Randall had "the finest collection of rare books between the coasts. It isn't as good as the Houghton Library at Harvard, and it's not as good as the Yale collection. We come right after Yale." Says Yale's Rare Book Curator Herman W. Liebert of Randall's library: "First rank-one of the outstanding in the nation...