Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should note that as of this writing, just under half of the students who received my questionnaire have completed and returned it. A few respondents, but only a handful, have indicated that they are members of SDS. In other words, the leaflet has done only negligible damage to my study. I mention this in order to emphasize that I am more concerned with the principle of academic freedom than with the effect of the leaflet on my research. Marshall W. Meyer Lecturer on Sociology
Fortunately, real shooting skill was not a prominent characteristic of Western gunslingers. They were, as Fred Allen once remarked, only "half-fast on the draw" and far too quick on the trigger-an occupational affliction that the Rosa book implies was really an affliction of character. The Western gunfighters apparently had magnificent courage-and galloping neuroses...
...Brown, Harvard trounced the Bruins by three and a half lengths in the Stein Cup race in April...
...Half the crew got tired and quit after a week of firefighting, but the remaining men underwent a slow mental transformation. They began to live as if civilization had never existed, if they had always eaten C-rations, lived in a simple tent, sported a dirty beard, and swaggered through marshy taiga. As the sun floated over Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range each morning, their bodies would drift into effortless ax-swinging--a muscular rhythm now as familiar as walking. When the helicopter failed to meet them on time after a day's work, they would...
...night they would watch flocks of long-legged cranes fly over the isolated valleys or the aurora borealis fill half the sky with a light show...