Word: almost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About ten minutes into the game, the Crimson almost pulled ahead, 1-0. Halfback Michael Smith surprised Bruin goalie Greg Mitko by launching a 40-ft volley from outside the penalty box. Mitko startled, reacted slowly but just in time to deflect the ball off the top of the crossbar for a corner kick...
Gordon's parietal hours seem almost decadent compared to those of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. At ORU, where resident advisors check every student room at midnight on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends, visiting hours for the opposite sex are held once a month, for two hours...
...details of the program have yet to be worked out, it should already be clear to informed observers that Harvard is not solely motivated by altruism or love of academic objectivity in this matter. Harvard's investments in banks and businesses which are involved in South Africa amount to almost $300 million...
...took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...
What we didn't realize was that there was no choice. The only restaurants in which South African blacks and whites can mingle are those few restaurants designated as "international" by the government. "International" status is given almost exclusively to the few five star hotels in order to accomodate black diplomats...