Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marital debating tricks are quite so outrageously effective as that of goading a spouse to near frenzy, then coolly inquiring: "For goodness' sake, what are you shouting about?" Last week Nikita Khrushchev elevated this domestic ploy to a diplomatic technique...
...East in fee," is now down to glass blowing, lacemaking, and putting up tourists. As its ancient islands and handsome buildings sink ever deeper into the waters of the lagoon, Venetians and their businesses have been migrating to the booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western end of Venice, well away...
...dived behind a bush. Not two yards away a British tommy shouted, "Here! Here!" "Although I was getting ready to die with honor," said Grivas, "the tommy was only calling to his friends to move on." Another time, Grivas was bathing in a stream when British troops appeared near by. He hid naked behind tall reeds until the British moved on. "They came that close to us many times...
...lived mostly on fruit. "I thought a trail of orange peels would lead the British to me," he said with a smile. "Usually it was too dangerous to hunt. But once I was awakened by a goat prancing near me and could not resist. I have never tasted anything so good." Grivas kept constantly on the move-and eventually moved from the barren mountains into the towns. He spent the better part of the last two years shifting from house to house in Limassol (pop. 36,500), right under the noses of the British. A trusted deacon in the Limassol...
...Cullmann cited two examples of Christ's sayings found both in the Gospel of St. Thomas and the church fathers: 1) "He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is far from me is far from the kingdom"; 2) "Split a piece of wood -I am there; lift the stone and you will find me there...