Word: hemi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despair is the nth term in a series of miseries. He is born poor. He loses his mother when he is nine. He hates his father, a foul-mouthed brute who wallops his children by day and molests them by night. He dreads his visits to the priest, a hemi-homosexual who lies down beside him in bed and talks about the boy's soul while he strokes his body...
...which the U.S. would like to be in the position of clasping hands with Latin Americans," intoned Moderator Charles Kuralt, "we are in the position of frisking them instead. After signing with ceremony solemn covenants in which we promised not to intervene in other nations of this hemi sphere, we are today intervening in the very kitchens and sitting rooms of one of them...
...hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which put Chrysler in such a huff that it refused to race at all at this year's Daytona Speed Weeks. "France made stock-car racing," groused a Chrysler mechanic. "Now he'll kill...
...genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder-sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest beings alive in our time," a man of vast abilities who could...
Having seen its gigantic head in books, We know the dragonfly Sees with hemi-spherical eyes More lensed than planetarium projectors...