Word: half
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After almost half a century of unbroken constitutional government, revolution came to Colombia last week. It was a revolution of the right, carried out by the government in office...
...Cleveland, Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, who for 16 years has plumped for pensions for old folks, offered a good reason for further plumping. After caring for his young grandson, Craig Alan, he saicT: "Babysitting is only that in name. With a two-and-a-half-year-old, it's mostly baby walking. I'm tired...
...Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain, and half a man firing half a machine...
Thousands of Berliners this week were dialing "23" on their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
With Confederate flags waving, an inspired North Carolina squad held Notre Dame even for half a game (6-6) in Yankee Stadium; then the dam burst and Carolina was swamped, 42-6. Already headed for the Rose Bowl, California took a deep breath and breezed by Oregon, 41-14. Oklahoma's split-T formation crackled and snapped to send a strong Missouri team down, 27-7, for its worst defeat of the year. The only one of the four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon...