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Word: nearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choosing to sleep next to the derelict under the open sky rather than in Boesman's makeshift shack, Lena gives up a bottle of liquor for permission to do so. Nevertheless, a drunk Boesman kicks and hits the old man as he sits slumped over and near death...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: A World Apart | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

Jansen refused to specify when and exactly where work on the border would start, saying it was likely to begin near the Slovak capital of Bratislava, a one-hour drive east of Vienna...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs to Remove Austrian Border Blockade | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

Vukonich's first goal came just 3:25 into the game, when he took a pass from John Murphy and stuffed the puck past Dartmouth goalie Steve Laurin. Near the end of the period, senior Tod Hartje sent a beautiful pass across the ice to Vukonich, who stuffed the puck in again to put Harvard...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Kirkland G-14 Scoring Race | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...your head' woman I heard about. She's not Imelda Marcos, Leona Helmsley or Marie Antoinette, and some people still don't understand that." Over eight months, Novak taped 250 hours of conversation at the White House, in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., and, of course, over the phone. Reagan offered candid recollections of the day her husband was shot, her hospitalization for cancer and her mother's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Celebs' Golden Mouthpiece: William Novak | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...anyone ever heard of the Ernie Pyle Memorial Library? Has anyone ever heard of Ernie Pyle? Pyle was a war correspondent and photographer during the Second World War. His photographs--along with a great collection of "Peanuts" comic books--are housed in a tiny public library near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ernie Pyle is my new idol...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Save the Little Libraries | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

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