Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program has been semi-officially named "As Lampy Sees Them," and the first script--"but only the first," explained comedian-publisher Putnam--will be censored by the Dean's Office...
...semi-humorists of Lampy come out of the funk and accept the gauntlet, the game will be played "on a neutral board" sometime next week, according to George R. Clay '43, temporary chairman of the Harvard CRIMSON Athletic Association...
...Cleckley tried to show a class of psychopaths which differs clearly from neurotic alcoholics, psychoneurotics, criminal sex offenders, ordinary criminals, differs also from obvious psychotics or lunatics. The mark of his class is an apparently aimless search for disaster, a sort of continual social and spiritual suicide. These semi-suicides are often, but not always, heavy drinkers. But whereas the neurotic drinker -the classic alcoholic-drinks to avoid reality, to escape feelings of failure, humiliation or inferiority, the disaster-seeking psychopath drinks simply to get himself in trouble...
...this curious disorder, Dr. Cleckley has coined a fancy name: semantic dementia-meaning inability to grasp the ordinary meaning of life as lived by human beings. It is as though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which...
Harry Hopkins' report to the President on Churchill's immediate wants can be summed up in two words: food and ships. His call for ships was no surprise. The call for food was not entirely surprising either. It had got semi-official recognition in February, at the annual National Farm Institute meeting in Des Moines. There Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard had warned that "the English may want some of our food and want it pretty soon." Fortnight ago, food-for-Britain got its first official recognition when the President sent his Lend-Lease appropriation request to Congress...