Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little colonnade framing the doorway, he stopped. His face was red; his eyes tired. He seemed to lean against a column as he talked. Slowly, in his soft Scottish burr, he told reporters the news. He turned to Ben Fairless for confirmation. Fairless, too, was worn out. His semi-stiff collar was sweaty and crumpled; his arms dangled loosely at his side. "I approve the statement of Mr. Murray," he said. The doorman came to help the gentlemen with their coats...
...onetime masters and onetime colonials were waiting for Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the East Indies Acting Governor General. In London and The Hague, determined Dr. Van Mook had pressed for a semi-autonomous Indonesia within a new Netherlands Commonwealth, and he had sold his idea, despite the opposition of diehard Dutch imperialists. Last week, as he prepared to fly back to Batavia, he said: "I am convinced that after one generation the Indonesians can reach full equality of status with Europeans. I hope we will come to terms. . . . There are groups in Java suitable for us to negotiate with...
...mine, a writer in northern Italy, who was in the anti-Fascist underground since 1931, wrote soon after the liberation, asking about my wartime broadcasts to Italy, which he regretted to have missed. My answer was that there had been no such broadcasts; all invitations from official or semi-official agencies I had declined, unwilling as I was to connive, even by implications alone, with an Anglo-American policy in Italy and Europe to which I strongly objected...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...
Last Monday, Coach John Chase's men put up a valiant fight against two teams, those of the Boston Athletic Association and the Needham Club, despite respective thrashings to the tune of 7 to 2 and 12 to 5. Both outfits were made up of professionals and semi-professionals, including B.A.A.'s Austie Harding, formerly of Harvard...