Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Almost every day on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers arrest and jail hundreds of Palestinian teenagers without charges or trial, beat dozens of protestors and shoot the most threatening...
...Almost every day for five weeks, a group of Armenians had huddled in the winter chill in front of Moscow's six-story Supreme Court building, slapping their arms against the sides of their brown fur coats to keep warm. Their breath burst forth in clouds of pale steam as they talked quietly to one another, discussing the fate of those on trial...
...will be an enormous undertaking: the random drug testing of almost every airline pilot, railroad engineer and truck driver in the U.S., a total of 4 million non-Government transportation workers. Rejecting widespread concerns about the constitutionality of such a move, the Transportation Department last week announced plans to require companies and municipalities involved in the transit business to begin testing their employees in December 1989. The ; workers will be screened for marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines and phencyclidine (PCP). Said Transportation Secretary James Burnley: "The American people demand and expect a drug-free transportation system...
With restaurant fever still epidemic in the U.S. and the national passion for "take-out" almost as strong, it is a bit surprising -- and heartwarming -- that publishers keep investing in cookbooks. Clearly, they believe there are plenty of old-fashioned souls who persist in doing their own cooking, if not for workaday meals, then at least on weekends and for guests. In fact, that is the tone of this year's better cookbooks. They tend to emphasize dishes that are stylish and special, though without the fussiness seen in recent years...
During my sophomore year, I stood on a grandstand at the corner of the end-zone with other sophomores. As anyone who has been there can attest, almost any seat anywhere else in the stadium is better. But like a good sophomore I accepted that seniority has its privileges...