Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kydes kept the Harvard attack moving. While almost everyone was having trouble gaining steady footing in the wet grass the short forward could not be stopped...
Clearly, they have. A comparison of turnover in the council during the 60's shows a surprising amount of stability. On the rare occasions when an incumbent is turned out of office, it is almost always to make room for a former member (as was the case in the re-election of Gabriel Piemonte this year) or to allow a politician who has made his name in another area, such as the school committee, to move...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 14-This city is tense as participants and marshals, police and federal troops prepare for Saturday's huge march protesting the War. Rain and hail this afternoon and bitter cold tonight have not prevented traffic from slowing almost to a halt as thousands pull into the District by buses, cars, trains, and thumbs...
Single file and almost silent, the marchers move across Memorial Bridge, past the drab Navy offices to the White House, and on to the Capitol. Each marcher carries a candle and a placard with the name of an American soldier killed...
...precisely Eiseley's argument in this curious book: If science ignores the ancient intuitions of poets and primitives, it is likely to become an arrogant distortion of its own truth. Practicing the sensibility he preaches, Eiseley begins each chapter under the guise of an old-fashioned personal essayist. Almost casually, he recalls a walk on the beach, the odd behavior of his shepherd dog one stormy winter night, a dig among American rhinoceros bones...