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Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.
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" Nearly a decade after George W. Bush said " misunderestimated " in a speech, Philip Hensher called the term one of his " most memorable additions to the language, and an incidentally expressive one: it may be that we rather needed a word for ' to underestimate by mistake '.
Nearly a decade after stricter state control following the Soviet invasion suppressing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ( including the execution of leader Imre Nagy ), János Kádár introduced Goulash Communism which led to a less repressive era.
Nearly a decade later, money woes forced Rindge to sell the land, and the Colony was born.
Nearly one third of the nation's top black engineering students have graduated from historically black institutions, like Morgan, in the past decade.
Nearly a decade later he recorded At Shelly's Manne-Hole ( 1968 ), an exciting live trio session with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, in which four of the compositions were improvised on the spot.
* Nearly 30, 000 independent food, drink, and tobacco retailers, or over 40 %, have been lost over the past decade.
Nearly a decade later, Kearns was driving his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, and the constant movement of the wiper blades irritated his already troubled vision.
Nearly a decade after Ms Carnell's first marriage was dissolved, on Sunday, 29 July 2007, Carnell and her long-term partner, Ray Kiley, married at a ceremony conducted at Old Parliament House in Canberra.
Nearly a decade later, Marriott, whose appearance has changed since the end of the series, was interviewed for FOX's 25th Anniversary television special.
The Verizon Center, located in the Washington, D. C. neighborhood of Chinatown, originally opened on on December 2, 1997 as the MCI Center, named after its sponsor, MCI Inc. Nearly a decade later, in January 2006, Verizon Communications purchases MCI Inc., and the arena's name is changed accordingly.
Nearly a decade and a half of frustration followed.
Nearly a decade later, even though he was seriously ill at the time, Chaney managed to conjure up his original energetic gestures while masked in a quasi-wolfish rubber mask for one scene in his last ( and most unfortunate ) film, 1971's Dracula vs. Frankenstein.
Nearly a decade later, the first recorded instance of the term " 12th Man " being used to describe an individual was to describe E. King Gill and his actions in Dallas on 2 January 1922.
Nearly a decade later after Richmond stepped down from OEO, former OEO official Joseph Califano, now President Jimmy Carter ’ s Secretary of DHEW, asked him to return to Federal service as Assistant Secretary for Health ( July 1977 ).
Prager and Metcalf last for a sole episode, the shortest stint for any featured player ( Nearly a decade later, Metcalf returned for a cameo in a short film piece ).
Nearly a decade after the end of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, the Mongols have now conquered the Jin Dynasty and are now setting their sights towards the Southern Song Dynasty.
Nearly a decade later, the organization established the precursor to today's Seminarians Interacting initiative.
Nearly a decade later, it was rerun on USA Network's USA Cartoon Express block from July 3, 1994 to August 25, 1995.
Nearly a decade of research went into making a new formula, which introduced pyrithione zinc into the shampoo.
Nearly a decade after the film's release, Hard Rain has developed a cult status among many fans.
Nearly a decade later another revival film was produced, this time for TV, on ABC.
* < sup > b </ sup > " Nearly a decade later, Fresco resumed his career on television.
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Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.
Nearly forty years were to pass before a comparably ambitious ruler appeared on the Russian throne.
Nearly all early postage stamps depicted the images of national leaders only, but before long, other subjects and designs began to appear.
Nearly the entire presidential line of succession is eliminated ; Ryan, who had just been confirmed as vice-president moments before, narrowly escapes the attack and is immediately sworn in as president.
Nearly 600 die before help arrives.
Nearly a century before Erik, strong winds had driven Gunnbjörn towards a land he called " Gunnbjarnarsker " (" Gunnbjörn's skerries ").
Nearly half a century before in 1875, two other schools for African Americans were organized.
Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer ( ed.
Nearly 600 years passed before Tirion once again appears in the mythology.
Nearly all duels and battles began with an exchange of arrowfire, before single combat was entered, with sword and dagger.
Nearly all routine radiosonde launches occur 45 minutes before the official observation time of 0000 UTC and 1200 UTC, so as to provide an instantaneous snapshot of the atmosphere.
Nearly all farmers kept pigs, which could often scrounge most of their own food or eat milk left over from making cheese, scraps or slop, and were fattened on acorns in autumn before slaughter.
Nearly two decades later, shortly before the Battle of Yavin, Palpatine found the continued existence of open political dissent a hindrance to his total control, and disbanded the Imperial Senate — sweeping away the last remnants of the Galactic Republic.
Nearly another year would pass before the other foreign parties to the conflict signed treaties on 3 September 1783, with that being ratified by Congress on January 14, 1784, and formally ending the American Revolutionary War.
Nearly a year passed before another ship docked at Saint Helena.
Nearly all the trails from the Missouri converged on the Platte River at or before Fort Kearny in mid-state Nebraska.
Nearly a year before his death, the ailing Mapplethorpe helped found the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. His vision for the Foundation was that it would be " the appropriate vehicle to protect his work, to advance his creative vision, and to promote the causes he cared about ".
Nearly all the wartime documentation on Generalplan Ost was deliberately destroyed shortly before Germany's defeat in May 1945.
Nearly four years later, Watson went back to court before District Court Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan for reconsideration of his sentence on February 12, 2008, which was an uncommon situation for the federal court after a defendant had served his time and had been released.
Nearly 2800 Palatine German emigrants were transported to New York by Queen Anne's government in ten ships in 1710, the largest single group of immigrants before the Revolutionary War.
Nearly all pregnancies are viable after the 27th week, and no pregnancies are viable before the 21st week.
Nearly a dozen armed men joined the hijackers before the plane returned to Algiers the following day, Saturday, 15 June, where an additional 65 passengers were released.
Nearly all American mass transit networks operating on the honor system expect their users to buy tickets immediately before use ; regular riders can avoid that inconvenience by buying period passes in advance ( often from the same machines that sell daily or one-time tickets ).
Nearly all of the vehicles, rockets, spacecraft, and spacesuits on display are either authentic or a " flight-ready backup ," which is identical to the item actually flown: if a problem is detected in a spacecraft, rocket, or suit before it is flown, the backup fills in on the mission for the damaged item.
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