Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andy May's lawyers pictured him as a sad and spavined man, plagued with a bad heart, failing eyesight and hearing, and the pangs of near-poverty. Andy's lawyer pleaded that a prison term would bar him from ever holding public office or practicing law again in his native state. (His lawyers did not mention that May, despite his conviction, gets a lifetime federal pension of about $3,400 a year for his 16 years in Congress.) His doctor was even more persuasive. He told the court that a prison term might actually kill old Andy...
...their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy. Most of the shops are full, but intelligent Germans tell Americans: "What we see in the store windows are your dollars." It is nearly $1 billion a year from the U.S. which keeps West...
Some of these items have been developed recently; the rest and many other inventions will be ready in the near future...
...compounds, the principle subject of Rochow's experiments, have an organic behavior, while retaining their original properties. Silicated substances may be developed that have the resilency of rubber, but are unaffected by the highest temperatures, because of the rock-compounds from which they are formed. Others may comprise a near perfect water-repellent...
...vocally disagreed with Bingham after he had finished speaking, and there was no "near riot...