Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's copy is one of 47 Gutenberg Bibles known to be in existence. The Bible is insured for $1 million but is almost irreplaceable. It was not damaged in the fall...
Those with birthdays drawn first will be the first to be inducted; those with birthdays drawn near the bottom of the list will be almost sure of exemption throughout the year. Those classified 1-A and not drafted during the year will drop into a lower-priority pool and will ordinarily be draft-exempt for the rest of their lives...
...Nick's was obviously tiring. The New York squad had brought only 15 men to Cambridge, and it was having trouble mounting an effective attack against the three sets of fresh, talented defensive units that Weiland was able to use. Durno was almost unbeatable, making 26 saves, and good back checking did the rest...
...exuberant traveler, Voltaire spent two happy years exiled in England, almost three as court intellectual in Prussia. And wherever he went, he tirelessly conducted his guerrilla warfare against royal and ecclesiastical superpower, not excluding the Church of England and, finally, his failed Philosopher-King Frederick...
...farm laborer from an old family of farm laborers. "Village people in Suffolk in my day," he says, "were worked to death. It literally happened. It is not a figure of speech." The "old ones," he adds, responded to the harshness of their life by taking an almost insane pride in their work. "A straight furrow was all a man was left with." Thompson is typical of his generation. He starved during a childhood spent gleaning beans and wheat and picking up road-mending stones from the fields-at 50? for 24 bushels. He witnessed bloody horror as a machine...