Word: half
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...
...cornfields got the worst of it. In rich Wright County, more than half the stalks were flattened. Said Farmer Leo Woodley: "I looked at my field about 10 a.m. when the wind began to blow. When I came back at noon, she was almost all down. Last year we got 80 bushels to the acre, and this year all we can hope...
Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...
...nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown a net profit. Last year's earnings ($26.5 million) were not enough to meet even half the interest payments on C.N.R.'s longstanding debt-a whopping $1.3 billion...
...scored once in each of the first three periods. The Funsters' spirit was broken early when Eliot tallied on a pass from Rick Hudner to Thelp Wilder. Hudner scored again in the second quarter on a wide sweep around end. The Pachyderms' final counter came early in the second half on a pass from Charlie Cabot to Rowland...