Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against them moved Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a lank, leathery, 42-year-old veteran of Italy's colonial service. Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road...
...writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually we all got down and sat on benches, then everybody lay down on the stone (very cold) floor and wrapped ourselves...
Next, Britons heard an ugly rumor (still unconfirmed because of defense regulations) that the Ebbw Vale mill, most efficient sheet mill in the British Isles, was lying one-third idle because the Steel Control Committee, a semi-official front for the Iron & Steel Federation, was giving preference in Government orders to cartel-owned mills...
Moral purging also got under way on the Riviera, where strictly enforced bathing-suit regulations bedecked the bosoms of French society's semi-nude sun cult. In Paris the German military authorities forbade Frenchwomen to use red lacquer on their fingernails on the grounds that it was a demoralizing Jewish-Oriental habit. The Folies-Bergere was scheduled to reopen under German supervision with less exposed anatomy and a German-speaking master of ceremonies...
...hired a real live artist, jittery Catalonian Surrealist Salvador Dali, to do his stuff in dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows, spindly-framed Dali broke into one of them, hurled himself and a fur-lined bathtub through the plate glass, almost decapitated himself. Bonwit Teller did not try the experiment again...