Word: near
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with commuter-like regularity, he walked into the big, opulent, mirrored barbershop of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a shave, a manicure, and, if need be, a trim. Afterwards he seated himself on a leather chair near the doors and received those who wished to chat, make quick touches, or offer him investment opportunities...
...birds of the forest came creeping around, charmed. But no one came very near...
...rice and sweet potato fields of Okinawa creep over the slate volcanic soil, covering the shell holes and the bloodstained caves where two great armies fought for eleven weeks. Weeds cover the charred foundations of what once were neat stone houses. Near by rise clusters of lean-tos made of cloth, battered boards and castoff American corrugated iron...
Since late September the hearings before FCC in Washington's chastely paneled Department of Commerce Auditorium have been crowded with TV experts, near-experts, publicity men, lawyers, Congressmen and corporate presidents and vice presidents. Witnesses spouted reams of technical testimony. Some witnesses were branded as liars, and their motives were viewed with alarm...
...papers and merchandise-fire would spring up and spread. Fire-fighting equipment would be trapped in demolished firehouses or hampered by rubble-choked streets. Even if it reached the fires, it would have no water to fight with: broken pipes would have reduced the pressure in the mains to near zero. The roaring flames, perhaps stirring up a "fire storm" as they did at a standard-bomb assault on Hamburg, would kill many people missed by the bomb itself...