Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humid, red-roofed Resht, an Iranian city of 120,000 near the shores of the Caspian Sea, death last week had an appointment with Mahmud Faqizadeh, 31. A burly, handsome young man who worked in the Imperial Forestry Service, black-browed Mahmud had quarreled with an eminent Reshtian businessman, brooded over the affair in the company of a bottle of vodka and then, while drunk, sought out the man and shot him to death...
...Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary school near Kimberley, where he also took an evening course that proved to be inspired by Communism. For a while Bhengu was attracted to Marxism, but by the time he was 20 he had returned to Christianity, was ordained in 1936 and became a missionary of the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal...
...Knoxville was at its best when it was least pretentious, matching with quiet lyricism Agee's poetic vision of a remote summer evening in the South: ''The stars are wide and alive, they seem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very near. All my people are larger bodies than mine...
While the rally and flares were pre-arranged, the team showed an encouraging spontaneous spark in its last appearance on home grounds. Grim determination seemed to characterize both the squad and the coach as they went through their rugged, routine Thursday drills in near-freezing weather...
...Eastern soccer's game of the year, the Crimson varsity will face Yale's powerful Bulldogs this afternoon at 2 p.m. in New Haven. The Elis and the Crimson will be in near-perfect condition for the showdown both squads have been pointing towards since late September...