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Word: nearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Near the goal, the Minuteman defense was awesome, allowing the usually potent Crimson attack a mere 15 shots on goal. Many times their keen stickchecking enabled them to catch the Harvard team off guard and swipe the ball before they came within shooting range...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Offense Slips Under Pressure As Laxwomen Fall to UMass | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...thinks of Rocky, it has not had a salutary effect on the movie business. The film made America safe for modest, old-fashioned tearjerkers, and Hollywood opened the floodgates. Voices is the latest in a chain of look-alike films. Even in this shoddy barrel of bathos, Voices is near the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Look-Alike | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...earthquake, centered in the Adriatic Sea near the Yugoslavian coastal resort of Dubrovnik, destroyed hotels, hospitals, factories, and homes along the coast, Belgrade Radio said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquake Hits Yugoslavia, Kills 235 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

President Josip Broz Tito, who was staying near the coastal town of Herceg-Novi when the earthquake hit, visited the stricken area. "It was lucky it was not a working day," the 86-year-old president said. He called in his aides to assess the damage and begin organizing rescue operations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquake Hits Yugoslavia, Kills 235 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Vojislav Savic, a passenger in a bus near Petrovac, said his view of the earthquake was "horrible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquake Hits Yugoslavia, Kills 235 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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