Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucia Ladanca lives in a semi-basement room at No. 3 Via Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
Chiang Kai-shek last week emerged from semi-retirement with a statement that contained a few important truths for Americans to ponder. Among them...
When Lenin died in 1924, so many Russians filed past his bier that a Soviet leader asked: "Could we not make a semi-permanent thing of it?" Professors Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobyev went to work, and after four months announced they had found a method that would preserve Lenin's body intact indefinitely...
...scene; but his absence was not presumed to imply disgrace, because his name appeared prominently on proclamations mourning Dimitrov. Thus Molotov remained first choice, with Malenkov a strong second, for the job of Stalin's successor, if & when Stalin, like Lenin and Dimitrov before him, becomes a semi-permanent thing...
Archbishop Beran, the calm center of the storm, remained a semi-prisoner in his Prague palace. All the resources of the Communist propaganda machine were employed in attacking him. The trade-union newspaper Prace accused him of working for "Wall Street-dominated Vatican City." "Leading such a gang," the paper said, "the Archbishop is heading into his own destruction...