Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distraction or worse by the messy betrayals of life. What Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep life at arm's length. He has "arranged his ideas in well-nigh final order: none of the weakness, none of the drift that made supposedly educated people contemptible...
...most colorful in our language. My wife, who is from Oklahoma, has given me many that I have used in my work as a motion-picture songwriter. She told me of one student who, when asked by the teacher if he was finished with his exam paper, answered, "Purt nigh but not plumb." This became the title of a song for Dinah Shore in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick...
...state's history to be elected speaker for three terms, was a very good bet for higher office. Now, like Fitzgibbon, the younger Draper faces a maximum of five years in prison. Maintains Draper: "I've done nothing wrong." At week's end Governor George Nigh announced that both leaders were automatically suspended from their offices...
...echo of the two shots fired beside the Wannsee shook people out of their lethargy; some obscure instinct told them that this death had meaning, even at a time when human life counted for so little. Today, more than a century and a half later, we have well-nigh forgotten the untold thousands slaughtered in the course of Napoleon's mad struggle for power, while the echo of the shots fired beside the Wannsee still rings in our ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist's death, on November 21, 1911, that the family...
...Bobby Thomson won baseball immortality when his ninth inning home run won the 1951 pennant for the Grants. For five points each, name the players who hit nigh inning homers which also won pennants for the 1938 Cubs and the 1976 Yankees...