Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STAGGERING CHANGE IN EISENHOWER, the staggered London Daily Mail reported: "The sick man leaning away from leadership has become the keen-eyed, confident head of state ready to cope with anything." The Manchester Guardian was almost mystic in its praise: "Something deeper and nobler than a passion for a political prize now guides the President's conduct...
Since the war, Shoup has held almost every key post in the corps, including those of fiscal director ('53-56), inspector general ('56-57), commander of the ist Marine Division ('57-58), of the 3rd Division ('58-59) and, most recently, of the recruit depot at Parris Island...
Also surprisingly, it was the conservative British who then took the radical step of giving the disease to a human volunteer. Dr. Leslie H. Collier and colleagues began with trachoma virus from the West African colony of Gambia. It proved almost identical with the Chinese strain and could also be grown in eggs. At London's Institute of Ophthalmology the researchers found their man: an old-age pensioner, 71, who had had both eyes removed because of injury and infection (not trachoma). Into his empty eye sockets the researchers inoculated their egg-grown trachoma virus. He had considerable discomfort...
...expense. It ordered the city's health department to make sure that all needy patients get treated at the city's General Hospital. But this left a lot of loose ends. Many patients were being treated in private hospitals-and with the high costs of polio care, almost every family becomes needy...
...love left for man. Biographer Ridolfi-a Florentine descended from both Lorenzo de' Medici, an early antagonist of the Dominican, and Giovambat-tista Ridolfi, one of the priest's loyal supporters-is clearly an admirer of Savonarola. He feuds pompously with previous biographers, argues expertly and with almost contemporary urgency in defense of the contentious martyr. The reader may reflect that the excesses of body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside of the same secular Renaissance that produced Michelangelo and Leonardo. It was an age of triumphant humanism, within and without the church, and Savonarola...