Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Schulz said it once: you only have to be a halfway good artist and a halfway good writer to be a cartoonist. I know my limitations. I could never make it as a writer, and I could never make it as a fine artist. Thus the world of cartooning was waiting for me to come along. I have plenty of partial ability...
...adventurers reach the South Pole by dogsled, but that is just the halfway mark in a journey across Antarctica. Admiral Peary's claim to have made it to the North Pole gets fresh support...
...stiff, uninteresting performance, additionally hampered by technical problems. The action was slowed down enormously by laborious scene changes, which involved repositioning the black and white flats that composed the set. And the lighting was so poorly designed that actors not infrequently recited their lines while standing halfway in the dark. The Cenci's fundamental weakness is its script, and the talent of the cast did not succeed in overcoming...
Adamec left halfway through the two-hour meeting with other parties yesterday, striding grimly toward his official sedan in silence...
...Soviets will not even consider a confederation, a halfway step to full unification. A change in this policy is infinitely more important than American goodwill...