Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...league fined Smith on Wednesday for the hit, which came on a first-down play in the second quarter as Manning was setting up to throw. Smith went around tackle Tarik Glenn and dived at Manning, colliding with the quarterback's legs near the left knee. Smith was assessed a 15-yard personal foul penalty...
...quote comes from a tablet currently on display at Harvard's Semitic Museum. It is part of an exhibit on the excavations of the town of Nuzi, a small provincial city in northern Mesopotamia that was once part of the Mittani kingdom, a Near Eastern world power from around 1500 B.C.E. The tablet is one of 14 preserved from the deposition of Kushshi-harbe, the mayor of Nuzi, during investigations into his sexual misconduct and criminal behavior...
After refusing sexual advances, the boy was murdered and his body dumped in the Piscataqua River near the New Hampshire-Maine border...
...Ticket Office has designated a large block of seats for each class, with first-years near the goal line and seniors closest to mid-field...
...prove it Bill Gates was hissed by some software customers Wednesday morning in the middle of defending his company's right to play hardball. The Apple cult is as emotional these days as ever, and Jobs -- who with characteristic flourish delivered the happy news to a packed house near Cupertino while the markets were still open -- still has his reputation as a visionary. But even as iMacs fly off the shelves, Windows PCs still outsell them 10 to 1, and software developers still tend to turn up their noses at writing code for a platform with only 10 percent...