Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, do U.S. critics any longer pant breathlessly over the mere novelty of Russian cultural performances or industrial exhibits. And as for the visits of the big Redwigs, the U.S. has toughened considerably in the half year since Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan got an openhanded, almost fawning reception from business and civic leaders across the land...
...been cut. As for Red China's great "leap forward" in steel, to a large extent accomplished by backyard amateur furnaces for smelting pig iron, Peking's official People's Daily was now complaining that some provinces of the country were able to use only about half...
...complaints are few and minor. Hiram Sherman, being innately comical, cannot as Ford quite convey "the finest mad devil of jealousy that ever governed frenzy"; perhaps it would have been wiser for him to exchange roles with Patrick Hines (Page). Ford is also too half-hearted in his cudgeling of Falstaff disguised as a witch; Falstaff ought to be beaten "grievously." Falstaff, in recounting his indignities, misses the point by interjecting, "a man of my kidney"; the sense demands, "a man of my kidney." Finally, the closing explanations of the triple elopement seem sudden and confusing because the portions containing...
...MODELS will be introduced earlier this fall than in other years, with 16 of 19 models scheduled by first half of October. Ford's Falcon is expected to bow first, followed by Chevrolet's small car, Corvair, and other General Motors makes, American Motors, Chrysler and Studebaker-Packard...
...rascally and unbalanced genius named Fred Demara Jr., who successfully changed identities with the ease of a child changing daydreams. At various times he appeared (among dozens of other types) as a Canadian navy surgeon, a teacher among Eskimos, a prison warden, and as a member of half a dozen different religious orders...