Word: almost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience in this is that the whites are willing to accept almost anything, provided that the standard of living is not dropped and provided order is maintained. They have built things over a long period of time with great difficulty. They think that if that should be lowered then what has their work been...
...Sailer almost added another goal with 6:20 remaining in the game when she attempted a penalty stroke--field hockey's equivalent of ice hockey's penalty shot. The co-captain missed, however, when she slapped a rushed shot just wide...
Hunt said a score achilles tendon almost kept Beckford from competing yesterday, but the injury did not appear to affect his star runner, as she recorded the fifth fastest time (17:22) ever run on the 5,000 meter Franklin Park course...
With every passing day, with each breaking tragedy, the visceral source of Christianity--of almost any religious faith--becomes more distant, yet more dear and alluring. And perhaps a society which has relegated the doctrine of love to its churches and temples and books can no longer afford to be so sure of itself. Science and technology have taught us so much, the Pope acknowledged almost wryly--so much in good and bad. How close are we--at this moment--beneath the desert and in submarines, in mental hospitals and in the nuclear core, to creating Hell...
...high point of the season, however, came at the Kendall Classic when Beckford finished second only to Olympian Francie Larrieu, lowering her mile time to 4:41--almost 34 seconds faster than the Harvard record set at 5:15.4 by Sarah Linsley...