Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Council sources said last night about 25 people demonstrated against the opening of the new establishment, which is located near a residential area about one block from the Sacred Heart Church...
Most of the protesters, who sat in groups near police barricades and in the middle of the financial district's busiest streets, went limp when police approached. Officers dragged demonstrators by their arms or carried them on stretchers to waiting buses and paddy wagons...
...jury only 50 minutes to decide the long-pending case, and when acquittal was an nounced the Geneva courtroom erupted in applause. Then a smiling Bernie Cornfeld, 52, the bearded hustler from Brooklyn who had founded Investors Overseas Services, the bankrupt European-based mutual fund empire, repaired to a near by cafe for a victory celebration. After a four-week trial that even the presiding judge described as a "circus," Cornfeld was declared innocent of charges that he had coerced employees of I.O.S. into buying its stock when he knew his operation was collapsing...
...sending long balls down the wings. With ten minutes gone, the highly skilled Bowen made a pretty, right-footed dab of a bouncing ball over Peter Sergienko's head before racing down the wing and centering. He and Touran repeatedly worked the ball towards the middle of the field near the Crimson penalty box. Their eforts, however, came to nought...
Harvard, 6-4 overall, racked up nine penalty corners in the second half, but, hampered by the near-frozen field and a tenacious Tiger goalmouth defense, managed only two shots as a result...