Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, opinion polls showed that while 66% of the French approved of Gorbachev, a little more than half believed he would not survive long in office. Gorbachev dismissed any notion he might soon disappear from the scene, but his practiced joviality slipped occasionally to reveal an inner tenseness, perhaps as a result of the mounting challenges to his authority at home. Gorbachev's schedule was arranged so that he could keep in close touch with Moscow...
...informer for Felix whom Dalton picks up during his investigation. They narrowly escape death at their first meeting, and spend an amusing few minutes arguing over who saved whose life and who acted most professionally. Unfortunately, Lowell's role quickly degenerates to the point where she's half kept woman and half sidekick...
...People's Daily, official mouth-piece of the 47.7 million-member party that is the world's biggest political organization, said 452 officials in the southern province of Guizhou were expelled for corruption in the first half...
...pointing the march back into the mountains, on steep, thickly wooded tracks, thirsty and quarrelsome, they came upon an emerald pool in the forest, a sweet, shaded secret. Toad drank water for half an hour without stopping. That night they slaughtered a goat and feasted. Lutupen hung the remaining goat meat in a tree above him as he slept curled up on a flat rock, and in the morning Toad found leopard tracks around the camp...
...offers an affectionate and accurate sketch of his friend and mentor. The character's name is S. Prasad, but the facts and mannerisms are V.S. Naipaul's: "He was an unusual alien: he knew everything about England, he had an Oxford degree, owned his own house, and had published half a shelf of books. He had won five literary prizes . . . Still, he called himself an exile. He said he didn't belong -- he looked it in his winter coat. Seeing me, he frowned with satisfaction...