Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet pressures build as SALT and a summit near...
...they reached an isolated clearing near a commercial TV station tower, a quarter-mile away from the government complex, the three men got out of the car. Shots suddenly rang out, and the terrified cabbie ducked to the car floor. Rosado died immediately. Soto lay mortally wounded. The undercover agent suffered superficial wounds. The presumed bombers carried only two boxes of matches and a box of charcoal briquettes. Police officials said they had shouted "Halt!" when the revolutionaries got out of the cab, but the two youths had begun firing...
...acres passed from one unit of Government to another; finally, in the early 1960s, the land was declared "surplus property" and turned into a federal haven for geese, ducks and deer. Apparently no one considered selling the land back to its original owners, many of whom were still living near by in trailers and small houses...
...from confrontation. Nevertheless, Thatcher's sometimes hectoring, sometimes condescending manner irritated many voters. In one poll last week, she ranked behind both Callaghan and the Liberals' David Steel as a campaign performer. In the end, though, the desire for change proved overwhelming, and on election day Britons voted in near record numbers for the Tories and their fighting lady...
...meshing of her public and private lives placed near schizoid demands on Thatcher. She had, and still has, two faces that are startlingly different: prim and tart-tongued in public, she is also a homebody who delights in comparing prices with other housewives in grocery stores near her comfortable house on Flood Street in the fashionable London district of Chelsea. Thatcher herself has said that "I'm a romantic at heart," and admits that "there are times when I get home at night, and everything has got on top of me, when I shed a few tears silently, alone...