Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlights of the meet for the men's team was the performance of freshman Chris Clever, whose throw of 221'1 in the javelin eclipsed his nearest competitor by almost 55 feet...
...touted restaurant, housed just a few steps behind the Kennedy School in the Charles Hotel. Prospective first-years wouldn't know it from the flood of information they receive before arriving in Cambridge, but one of the Northeast's top restaurants is far closer to the Yard than the nearest McDonald...
Lech Walesa, the fly, feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism. It is one of history's great ironies that the nearest thing we have ever seen to a genuine workers' revolution was directed against a so-called workers' state. Poland was again the icebreaker for the rest of Central Europe in the "velvet revolutions" of 1989. Walesa's contribution to the end of communism in Europe, and hence the end of the cold war, stands beside those of his fellow Pole, Pope John...
...might be on the receiving end of the comment. My head turned toward the sound. A further comment greeted me as I realized he was talking to me: "I want to eat you!" the stranger enthusiastically continued. That was enough. My feet flew in the direction of the nearest door of the K-school...
...thought of having to turn around and get back into that illness-inducing suspended box was too much. The receptionist directed me to the nearest staircase, and I began to make my way downstairs. Everything should have been simple from that point. It wasn...