Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...textile industry's 1,250,000 workers remember peppery little Francis Joseph Gorman as the leader of the great U. S. textile strikes of 1934. Last week Mr. Gorman loudly reminded them that he is also the president of a well-nigh forgotten union: United Textile Workers of America...
...schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local chocolate factory. Although a sombre political note runs through all these complex relationships, the political confusions are less interesting than the amorous ones, and the passions unleashed are well-nigh sufficient to explain the disasters that have since overtaken France...
Furthermore, civilian netting in rural and small-town North Carolina did not answer the defense questions of Manhattan, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, around which lie vast patchworks of smaller cities, replete with well nigh indispensable lights, ground noises to dull groundling ears, an appalling number of dispersed targets for enemy hunters. Army men neatly turned this fact to their publicity uses. In North Carolina was concentrated all the modern antiaircraft equipment east of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty-four guns, in six batteries, were barely enough to defend the 1½-square mile objective marked off at Fort Bragg...
...reaching friction. It is expected that the sophomore year will be used breaking the ice; but when, as may be case in the English department, when a considerable number of seniors must become acquainted with three different tutors in as many years, the value of the system is well-nigh gone...
...Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot."-As You Like...