Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of these had fought Franklin Roosevelt from way back. More surprising was the rush to Willkie of amateurs and semi-pros, who had been for Roosevelt before...
...fleet, within six months. While President Roosevelt's Defense Commission and U. S. industry carry out their own vast mobilization, the Army must: i) list its needs, from quinine to tanks and airplanes; 2) carry out a vast building program; 3) train close to a million raw and semi-expert troops; 4) feed them, doctor them, fit them to the most complicated set of weapons in the history of warfare; 5) educate a citizenry-accustomed to regard its soldiers alternately as romantic heroes or expensive jingoistic nuisances-in what its Army (really a specialized public service like a police...
When the field narrowed down to the semi-finalists-after two days of postponement because of rain-no one in the Merion Cricket Club stands was surprised at the survivors: McNeill, Hunt, Guernsey and Bill Talbert, University of Cincinnati up-&-comer, who had ousted Ted Schroeder in the quarterfinals. Tennis tournaments usually run truer to form than golf tournaments. Last week's was no exception. In the semifinals, Hunt put out Guernsey, McNeill put out Talbert. And in the final, sharpshooting, canny McNeill, seeded No. 1, subdued Hunt in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. Trooping...
Italian divisions have but two regiments each, 10,000 men. Three semi-mechanized celeri (swift) divisions are built around light tanks, horse-drawn and motorized artillery, with Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) on bicycles, motor trucks, motorcycles. Three armored divisions, and six armored regiments have heavier (eight-to-twelve-ton) break-through tanks, besides assault tanks, infantry in trucks, an engineer company with bridging equipment, anti-tank and anti-aircraft units...
...news of France, Transradio relies on the semi-official Agence Havas. Their agreement stipulates that Havas dispatches can be given only to newspapers, not to broadcasters. From Berlin, Transradio picks up short-wave bulletins broadcast by Germany's Transocean News Service. All news originating in London, no matter where Transradio happens to find it, bears a London date line...