Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point, at least half of the jurors broke into tears; one fainted dead away in the box and had to be carried...
...Half-Century, I offer . . . Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. Dr. Herzl's movement, launched in 1897, when he predicted the re-establishment brought of the Jewish state "50 years later," brought to fruition the greatest scheme in behalf of a persecuted people . . . Dr. Herzl was the half-century's counterpart of a Biblical prophet...
...quiz show went on for more than an hour and a half before Morse called a halt. Political reporters who heard him thought that he came out on top. Morse is up for re-election next year; so far, his possible opponents, like his questioners, are still out of sight...
...seemed an open & shut case. A 205-Ib. barkeeper named Jim Comber, half seas over from a night of drinking, had brawled with a drunken companion on a Philadelphia street. The friend staggered and fell; witnesses hurrying to work at dawn saw Jim Comber kick him repeatedly in the head after he was down. Minutes later the man was dead. The prosecution asked for a second-degree murder conviction. Judge Joseph Sloane, summing up, told the jurors: "I do not see how you can find the defendant not guilty...
Last week G-Man Hoover disposed of DeVoto with a passing blow ("I do not care to dignify Mr. DeVoto's compilation of half truths, inaccuracies, distortions, and misstatements") and swung on the editors. In a letter to them, published in the current Harper's, he asked...