Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barry, surrounded by clergy in a broadcast appearance in front of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church near his home, clasped his wife's hand and said he has come "face to face with my deepest human failures...
Last Friday night at Bright Center, the Harvard men's hockey team was on its best behavior, courteously cruising to a near-perfect 11-0 victory over Yale...
Melrose served notice early in his farewell performance that the Bright crowd's pre-game standing ovation hadn't softened him up, cross-checking a Bruin forward who ventured near netminder Allain...
Noriega made a different kind of arrival last week at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami. Now he was an accused felon and his hosts -- from the Justice Department this time -- took him to jail. After landing at 2:45 a.m., the deposed dictator was sped to a Miami federal courthouse. There he was posed in a T shirt for a humiliating mug shot, then stashed in a windowless basement cell. Panama's numero uno had become federal prisoner...
...Tunes." As a rule, though, piped-in images are perceived as comforting. During her irregular childhood with Zoyd, Prairie sometimes wishes that she could be a member of "some family in a car, with no problems that couldn't be solved in half an hour of wisecracks and commercials." Near the end of the novel, when Prairie gets to meet her mother, nothing will do but that the child sing the theme song from Gilligan's Island...