Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nearly 750 bicycles have been registered at the firehouse near Memorial Hall since Cambridge police cracked down on cyclists a week ago, Chief of Police Daniel J. Brennan said yesterday...
...number? Well, they have it 'most anywhere. Is this here your bike? I mean some have it up here right under the seat, see, and some have it down back near the axle, right there, and some...
...near-record turn-out, nearly 80 per cent of the eigible voters in California cast their votes in the off-year election. Rose said the vote "was not an all-time high"; but that it "compares with the vote of 1950, and some of the New Deal record turnouts...
...best of the nation's youth is slowly being beaten to an impoverished pulp, it is essential that the MDC take steps to conserve a vital resource. A foot patrol, for example, could be stationed near Weeks Bridge, ready to respond to the sounds of battle. Or locks could be installed on the switchboxes. Or the MDC officers could be a wee more observant as they speed by in their cruiser chargers...
...hero (Trevor Howard) is a dentist with a thing about elephants. After long confinement in a Nazi concentration camp, he goes to Africa to be near the great beasts-"the image of freedom and space"-and is horrified to see "this gigantic, clumsy natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary...