Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said Tough Cop Kennedy: "The main reason why the unlighted streets were not turned into a dark and steaming jungle was the reaction of the community ... In the dark all men were the same color. In the dark our fellow man was seen more clearly than in the normal...
...itinerary, because of the nature of the problems to be resolved, was France. De Gaulle, in seclusion last week at his home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, was planning long hours of talk alone with Eisenhower. Not since De Gaulle came to power 15 months ago, to almost universal cheers inside and outside France, had he found himself so isolated. France had either antagonized or felt itself wronged by all its neighbors and allies. U.S. jets have had to abandon their French NATO bases for new, and tactically less valuable, fields in West Germany because of French harassments, born...
Holding Anne-Marie's hand and occasionally putting a comforting arm about, her shoulder, Steven explained almost plaintively to newsmen his reasons for allowing only five reporters at the ceremony itself: "For many of you, this is merely another job. Anne-Marie and I have to live for the rest of our lives on the memory of what goes on in this church. For us it is a very private occasion and a religious one. I hope you will respect our feelings in this...
Cold-War Indifference. Guinea aside, the question of Communist influence does not-at least as yet-seriously arise. Though the present African leaders are almost all Western-educated and Western-minded, they are highly indifferent to the struggle between East and West. They seem to be much too possessive about their new position to ally themselves with other powers, even with one another...
...Communists were on the offensive again. Only 3,500 strong, but well-equipped and highly trained, the Reds seemed well on the way to taking over Laos' important northern provinces. Phongsaly, which borders directly on both China and North Viet Nam, was heavily penetrated. Samneua was now almost entirely surrounded by a 20-mile-wide ring of Communists, and at least a third of the province was under Red control...