Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York is 2,451 miles from Los Angeles, and that's about 2,451 miles too far. But thank you for bringing the fair a little nearer...
Best Bargain. The most fascinating effect of these scenes was a matter of chronology, as the program reached back across the nearer distance of Ike's genial presidency to show a man slightly but substantially different, reliving his somewhat presidential generalcy in command of the corporate war. Against the background of the vast invasion, with organization reaching to the horizons, his special colloquial touch stood out retrospectively as the small force that brought the great ones to human terms and made the whole huge enterprise go so well...
...Bond spends what he likes, keeps a stable of cars, fornicates by proxy for six million commuters. He is indifferent to pain (particularly other people's), and is fortunate in one respect: the nearer he gets to the enemy, the more horrible the enemy becomes...
...doubt nearer reality, that whites--Christian or otherwise, liberal or conservative--who attack Negro demonstrators or oppose Negro protests are not always rational or near conversion, but men for whom the Negro problem is almost organically bound with many of their fears; men prone to irrationality and hysteria. Many are more like the Anabaptist Christians who carried swords into a town they planned to occupy just as a reminder of what they might do if they were not civilized Christians. Once in the town square, the Holy Ghost spoke to them and they decided they had been tolerant long enough...
Another disgruntled Saville resident declared, "If they're going to make us living an ugly house, at least they could find one nearer the Square...