Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold their first summit meeting next year, officials announced Saturday as the two superpowers completed a half-dozen accords and cleared a major roadblock to a treaty on slashing long-range nuclear weapons...
...Half-serious, half-mocking in tone, the book is a Bartlett's of botches that cannot decide whether it wants to be a reference book for hack writers--footnotes and all--or a coffee-table text for the literati--hence the discussion of "quotesmanship," with the politically-correct parentheses presenting quotes-woman beside quotesman...
Painted against the backdrop of a national cultural identity constantly changing its definitions, Leibowitz's extensive investigation of Americans' personal style and all the misrepresentations and half-truths contained within is justifiably ambitious...
...Huskies opened the scoring midway through the first period and were up by two goals at the half...
After adjusting to the new surface, the puddles and the rain, the Crimson improved in the second half. But Northeastern was unwavering in its attack. The Huskies tallied a third goal after miscommunication among the Harvard defense resulted in an uncontested shot on goal...