Word: almost
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Kingston's prose imitates--almost mocks--an era and its writers, but she does not attempt to recreate their style. Hers is the San Francisco of the 1960s, city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier works, the Mexican-Americans of California fame, the mainstream Americans of boring jobs and boring attitudes, the blond-haired beauties and the bearded draft dodgers--all types pass through Kingston's city...
...almost gotten to the point where winning a tournament is almost a letdown," Co-Captain Jon Greenberg said. "We felt the Beanpot was something we should win. There was a feeling that winning a championship is all in a day's work, and today was just another...
...Almost lost in the stormy debate at last night's Undergraduate Council meeting over the reinstitution of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the council continued planning for a May concert and the holding of a campus-wide referendum...
...over Queens was particularly significant for Harvard because it almost guarantees the team the number-two seed for the Eastern Championships to be held in two weeks at Bucknell University in Lewiston...
...with the character of the individual," says Kate Smith, who has worked with athletes in the Harvard training room for two years. "Obviously, if the athlete is not committed to the sport, then an injury provides an excellent excuse to quit. But almost everyone that comes in here with a serious injury returns to the playing field...