Word: almost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holy Father in effect reply to Sister Theresa Kane in his homily, which urged nuns to be "other Marys"? He referred to the Last Supper, at which the church says the priesthood was instituted, and almost as an aside, he said, "And Mary was not there." Subtle though it was, what more answer could he give or should she need...
...candidates will be viewed through a prism of what they seem to offer in the way of help on energy and inflation and America's place in the world. More than in any recent election, the country will be looking at the candidates skeptically, doubting their promises, almost cynical about their abilities to alter fundamentally the nation's course. Says Maine's Senator Edmund S. Muskie, himself a failed presidential candidate in 1972: "People no longer believe the system exists to solve problems. There is a quiet kind of bitterness out there...
...Almost everywhere the campaign train stopped in the fall of 1952 crowds chanted: "We want Mamie." Nobody was more startled by the cheering than Mamie Doud Eisenhower, the quiet, self-effacing woman who lived for her famous husband and had no appetite for public life. "Ike fights the wars," she said. "I turn the lamb chops...
...Then we went up a very steep incline. It took a long time and it seemed like I was almost walking. By the time we got to the top, Eve Thompson from Princeton passed me. After that we hit a flat part and I got by her again. I kept looking behind me and there were people following me closely the whole way," Beckford said after the meet...
...team was not expected to go far, and it failed to qualify for the regional championships, finishing with a mediocre 6-7 record. But yesterday's lackluster team was not the Crimson squad of midseason, the squad that beat Penn and almost upset Springfield, Princeton and UConn...