Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George won the starting position at quarterback, but for the pre-season games it looked almost as if Big Hole might have done better. With raw rookies trying to fill the voids left by injured veterans like John Tyson and Dan Wilson, the Crimson first unit bumbled through a 16-7 loss to a weak New Hampshire team...
...after an easy rout of Brown, here they were. A Cinderella team facing the might Eli. Somehow it was impossible, and in the euphoric week before The Game people seemed to float from place to place. Harvard sophomores got rich with tickets going for $200 each. The pundits were almost too numb to write about the biggest college game in decades. The old grads were in the finest hour...
Hungarian diplomats told the U.S. State Department that Henrietta Blueye was almost free. The Hungarians said that Miss Blueye's six-month prison term for smuggling refugees out of Hungary would be up on February...
...Almost to a man they criticized SDS. Just to make the opinions official, however, the reunion committee provided them with a questionnaire which was answered by 128 classmates, 61 of their wives and assorted sons and daughters...
...TELEPHONE sat on the floor in the center of the living room--black, mysterious, almost untouchable out there all by itself. Martin, however, sat in the far corner of the room in the armchair that he knew he and his roommate had bought from a smiling sophomore for twenty dollars. He was daydreaming; his dark hair had fallen over his forehead and now partly concealed his empty eyes, but it could not hide the wanton slant of his grin. He had not moved for half an hour when he decided to make the phone call...