Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Politics the way I play it is a rough business." Said one longtime anti-Nixon newsman at evening's end: "He really won me over." ¶Because too many communiques might sound like too much saber-rattling, the Atomic Energy Commission will make announcements on no more than half the 30 nuclear shots to be fired at the mid-Pacific Eniwetok Proving Ground this summer during the Operation Hardtack test series. But there is another compelling reason for secrecy as well. By not revealing the time and type of all bursts AEC will avoid offering the Russians an opportunity...
Bellingham's supermarketmen have been taking it longer than most because their city's lumber and fishing industries slipped early. Pilferage soon shot up over 1% of gross sales, took half of food retailing's narrow profit. The desperate grocers screwed up collective courage, got police to start arresting guilty customers and releasing their names to the press. Theirs was one of the few open moves against a corrosive crime that already takes at least $250 million worth of goods from U.S. supermarkets each year...
...were about a mile and a half off shore when we were hailed by a Coast Guard cutter. We were asked to heave-to and we did," Bigelow said...
...game was well in hand by the end of the first half, when the Crimson led, 7 to 1. Dick Parks opened the scoring at 1:50 of the first period with a hard, low shot that escaped the goalie. After a Brown attackman batted an errant rebound past MacKinnon at 7:27, Nick Lamont scooped up a screen shot by Charlie Devens and scored. Devens, who took the place of Karl Bjork on the first midfield, played a fine game for a man who started the season on the fourth midfield...
...Marriage lacks the ingenious plotting of its predecessor, but for half its length it is refreshingly funny. After that, it becomes apparent that neither the reluctant hero, nor the hesitant heroine, nor the crowd of secondary suitors, nor the meddling friend, nor the coarse matchmaker, have been conceived with much imagination. Gogol portrays the Russian bourgeoisie, with only slight exaggeration and stereotyping, in all its pomposity, stupidity, and avarice. After The Marriage one can understand the October Revolution...