Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series game plan was defense, and with the score tied 2-2 at the start of the third period, the Crimson defenders had executed the game plan to near perfection...
...showed a lot of character out there tonight," captain Craig Adams said. "After our horrible start, we found ourselves and we damn near well beat one of the best teams in the league...
...Cornell committed four penalties in a very physical first period that saw several near-injuries and near-fights. But Harvard countered with expert passing and aggressive skating that churned out 20 shots. Only an impressive performance by Hayes kept the Big Red in the game long enough for tempers to settle down and prevented a Crimson rout...
Between 1841 and 1851, the Irish population dwindled from 8 million to 6 million, these numbers driven equally by starvation and emigration. How much greater the indignity that the million who died mostly did so in anonymity, in unmarked mass graves along roadsides and near the coast. During the winter of 1847, the worst year of the Great Famine also known as "Black '47," one such mass grave, on a beach in County Mayo, was dug in the sand because the survivors were too weak to break the frozen ground...
...result of switching to the Holyoke Center transmitter was a phenomenon called "blanketing," common near large FM transmitters. Audio equipment and other electronic devices located close to a transmitter may receive the signal and begin broadcasting it without being tuned to the station...