Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massive clouds of subatomic particles, tugged by their own gravity, might have coalesced into filaments and flattened disks. The vivid reds, greens and blues of the shapes are not merely decorative but represent the various densities of the first large structures as they emerged from primordial chaos in the near vacuum of space...
...Sharon can get to anything that is hit near her," Baldauf said...
With a solid core of oarsmen back from the '87 national championship campaign, the Crimson is at or near the top of everyone's pre-season predictions--an accustomed place for the Harvard heavies...
Alex Steinbergh, one of the city's largest landlords, loaned two apartments to the former Tent City residents after their November eviction from an MIT-owned vacant lot near Central Square, setting an eviction date of March...
...true that no place on earth is better suited to Jewish values and predispositions. Folklore has it that New England parsimony means thrift, whereas Jewish parsimony means miserliness, but the qualities are exactly the same. A dogged middle-classedness; a passion for education; a faith in individual enterprise; a near hysterical sense of family; a driving impulse toward nationalism and security; a belief in individual rights and expression, in reason, in the rule of moral law; a lust for self-celebration; a boisterous embracing of life, underlain by a fearful morbidity; a sentimentality grounded in iron. Of such things...