Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany would occupy Russia up to the Urals for 25 years, set up a "semi-autonomous" Ukraine...
...mail runs to about 500 letters a week. The letter he likes best came from a man who wrote: "My wife was a semi-invalid. She enjoyed your broadcasts. Yesterday she began to sink, but she heard the last out. She died happy...
During the Hour he may hear the gossip of fellow agrarians, enjoy snatches of semi-classical music and follow the adventures of "Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers" as they plow through a script prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. He chuckles at the antics of Aunt Fanny, postmistress of mythical Cheery Valley, smiles knowingly when Announcer Everett Mitchell gets off his famed daily greeting (often in the midst of a nor'easter): "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles told newsmen that the U.S. had information of a new plan of German aggression: against the remaining independent nations in Europe. Newsmen went to the maps and counted the neutral, independent European nations. Only five seemed even semi-independent: Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey. Once there were 26 independents...
...great lady or another, his work sagged into mediocre translations and brilliant, sanctimonious letters. Not to a patron, but to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, Rilke owed the two most productive years of his life: the years in Paris writing the New Poems (fourth-dimensional still lifes) and that semi-autobiographical symphony of fear, the Malte Laurids Brigge (Journal of My Other Self...