Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Janeiro Bureau Chief George de Carvalho, with New York Photographer Anthony Linck, traveled 10,000 miles for almost a month by motor launch, native dugout canoe, truck, jalopy and a variety of barely airworthy small planes, visited scores of river towns, oil and mineral exploration camps, pioneer farms, mines, missionary stations and Indian villages deep in the jungle. Once, to photograph a tribe of Mato Grosso Indians, De Carvalho and Linck hiked nine miles through thick jungle and at dusk hiked out again, preceded by a native guide armed with a flashlight and rifle. At the camp of a seismographic...
...Franklin Jensen, eleven-term G.O.P. Congressman from southwestern Iowa's Seventh District. By last week Ben Jensen, already fighting desperately to hold the seat that was once rock-ribbed Republican, was running mainly on an anti-Benson platform, called his own Administration's farm plan "almost a complete failure ... I just don't agree with Benson. I've urged him to change his course. But it's been in vain...
...than a vehicle to carry his head around on, the truth was that he really did care. He had no reason to be generally proud of his physique, but it did have its fine points. His calves, for instance, would have been admired in the eighteenth century and he almost regretted the passing of knee britches...
...Yalies were fooled by Kinney's ball-handling, but in the second half they rolled through the previously strong Crimson defenses. Jud Calkins, a doubtful starter because of an injury, almost stole the show from Kinney and piloted Yale back into the game...
...Yale struck back, first with a blocked punt that went behind the end zone for a safety and two points, then with a touchdown. After the half, Kinney continued to play effectively, but the Bullpups began to pass and run through the Yardlings almost at will. They soon closed the gap to 24 to 22 and, minutes later, scored the clincher on a six-yard plunge by Dave Weinstein to remain undefeated...