Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residential taxes will go up by almost 10 percent for the average single-family homeowner from $2663 last year to $2920 this fiscal year, McDevitt said...
...attend Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and other holiday services regularly and I have doubts about what Jenny Cavilleri of Love Story refers to as "the God-blessing bit," I often find it difficult to integrate the religious and cultural aspects of being Jewish. I grew up almost implicitly recognizing the influence that Jewish habits, mannerisms, sayings--in short, Jewish culture--had on my lifestyle...
...life. After Richardson began an affair with actress Jeanne Moreau and thereby precipitated the end of an already troubled marriage, Redgrave had a romance with actor Franco Nero, with whom she had a son, Carlo, now 19. More recently, she shared bed and the boards with actor Timothy Dalton, almost ten years her junior (and the latest James Bond), who was her Antony and Petruchio in the repertory triumphs...
...portraits of Philip IV are the most remarkable biography of a monarch in all art, spanning his life from the confidence of youth to the melancholy and distance of his afflicted age. The face thickens, the eyes sag, the Bourbon lip takes on a heavy repressed pathos; you can almost see it quiver. Only the mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives...
...differed sharply in severity. The LaGuardia accident resulted in two deaths and seven hospital admissions. The Chad mishap killed all 171 people on board. Yet in the week following the two crashes, the Washington Post ran an identical number of stories, five, about each. The Los Angeles Times published almost twice as many stories about the New York City crash (ten) as the one in Chad (six). In the New York Times, the LaGuardia crash rated twelve stories, the Chad disaster six. The networks reacted similarly: ABC's Nightline, for example, aired three cut-in reports and, later, a full...