Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...
...finally over. After five years and nigh on $50 million of phony, partisan investigations and more than a year of media hysteria and round-the-clock cable coverage, the scandal has finally come to a close. The Senate vote will mark an end to this ugly chapter, and congressional Democrats and Republicans will make peace and begin solving the problems of the next millennium...
...roaming Capitol Hill [trying] to find tourists with video cameras," Turley says. "There is a fear that many of us will become pundit mercenaries and travel to other countries as impeachment commentators for hire." Wisecracks aside, he knows his 15th minute is nigh; he must soon return to the quotidian life of teaching and writing. "I can find something to occupy my time," he sighs...
LOWELL, Mass--Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci and Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 squared off in the first debate of the gubernatorial campaign last nigh before a boisterous crowd in this former mill town...
...Watching her play the other nigh, I was petrified of her," Smith said in the post-game press conference. "I don't think I've seen a player take over a game like that. She is just unbelievable. I think she's definitely underrated...