Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the opinion of competent observers of the French situation that De Gaulle would have been prepared to follow in the footsteps of France and start a civil war if the Communists had been elected. But this was no coup d'etat. The fact that a Fascist or semi-Fascist party won in a free election makes the situation that much more dangerous. It reveals a rapidly increasing despair of American aid materializing into anything more than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites...
Kiss of Death. A tough, scary semi-documentary about a stool pigeon; well played by Victor Mature and Richard Widmark (TIME, Sept...
...Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires' semi-official daily El Laborista: "[They are] the advance guard of the Plan Quinquenal which will make Tierra del Fuego a magnificent exponent of social and economic progress...
Here in Cambridge the Freshman team will play an unofficial scrimmage with the Watertown soccer club, a team in the Boston District Semi-Pro League...
Three men represent the United States in each track event at the Olympic games, and they will be chosen at a meet to be held late next spring in Minneapolis. The national AAU meet and the NCAA meet will be the semi-finals for the decisive Minneapolis meet, with former U. S. Olympic representatives eligible, without placing in the semi-finals...