Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those of you who think that I am removed from the non-Crimson world and thus from any direct criticism, you weren't around when my roommate became obsessed with an article that she disagreed with about a matter dear to her heart and proceeded to complain well-nigh incessantly about it. For two weeks. To strangers, acquaintances and friends. Trust me, I hear all about the inaccurate, superficial Crimson that misquotes just about everyone...
...then wobbling and pinwheeling toward the stage, only to be deftly rescued: a mental-moral-political equivalent of the kind of act that the adolescent Bill might have watched on the Ed Sullivan Show. Here was the excitement of the President of the last superpower attempting a well- nigh unconstitutional if admirably motivated exercise (admirably motivated if one discounted the approaching midterm elections and the poll bounce to be coaxed from a triumphal little war: mere cynicism, of course...
Another professor mentioned in Kilson's letteralso could not be reached last nigh...
...knows. This much is for sure: On Monday, radio station KMPC dropped its sports-talk format. The end, by any measure, is nigh. One wonders if the Chumash, waiting on the sidelines all these seasons, stand ready to reclaim the dusty basin...
...national information highway" should play an integral role in the nation's future classrooms, the newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission said last nigh in a speech at the Graduate School of Education...