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Word: almosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps when these six people met over pizza (they almost entitled the book The Pizza Papers), the gobbledygook appropriate to high-level briefings and high-flown speeches and editorials just sounded like the absurdity that...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: The Price of Paranoia | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...reasons I've been flat the last two weeks was a lot of things coming together at once--the season, papers and exams, the scouts, being captain," Brown said, almost having to force the words out. "I was feeling a lot of pressure. Not so much pressure--I was just tired of it all. I wanted to get it over with and get it behind me. I wasn't really all that physically tired, but emotionally tired...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: What's Wrong, Brownie? | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

Katherine Kean as Cunegonde, though somewhat overshadowed by the prevailing lunacy, gives a coy and engaging performance. Kean has a stunning voice which she displays in a solo called "Glitter and Be Gay." Her operatic fireworks brought a two-minute ovation. Kean's acting is almost as good as her voice, though she tends to overdo the fluffy-headed childishness of the gold-digging Cunegonde...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Glitter and Be Gay | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...young boy's lapse into a blind, deaf and dumb state, induced by witnessing his father's murder. This is the story of a boy who suffers repeated assault to emerge as pinball champion, guru, and finally, a victim of his own followers' violence. This is the show that almost appeared in Dudley House. However, a Master's wrath (piqued by an oversize stage) forced a sudden relocation to the Currier fishbowl...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: One More For Keith | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...Almost every thinclad registered a solid performance in the meet. The sprint relay squad remained undefeated as Joe Salvo and Ralph Polillio returned from the injured ranks to join Marc Chapus and John Jakenfelds for a time of 41.9 over the 400-meter course...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Trackmen Grab Third in Boston Meet | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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