Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost nightly explosions and the crack of rifles along the highway were the union's response. Surprisingly, only one person was seriously injured...
...that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
...Nationalist government provides new incentives for investment in export industries. Private U.S. investors have put only $54 million into Formosa, partly because they object to the terms of Formosa's foreign-investment law, partly because of sad experience with the widespread "squeeze" system, through which some Formosan officials almost seem determined to run foreign businesses out of the country, not bring them...
...Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold, chiseled brilliance. The Viennese approach is easy, mellow, almost sentimental, conveying a chamber group's intimacy in place of thrust and stride...
MONSIGNOR FRANCESCO MORANO, 87, oldest of the new cardinals, but hale and lively-minded. A scholar with degrees in philosophy, theology, canon and civil law, physics and mathematics, he will almost certainly be one of the staff planning and preparing for the Ecumenical Council...