Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Woollcott had barely enjoyed the triumph of being hired as a reporter for the New York Times when he was stricken with mumps. The already abnormal youth left his bed "if not totally neutralized, permanently depleted of sexual capacity." His skinny frame took on "the unhealthy fat of semi-eunuchism." It was no wonder that his vindictiveness became so "swift . . . shocking and poisonous," that his fellow reporters, used to less skillful insult, feared and avoided him. But Woollcott made his unpopularity a badge of honor, turned his brashhess into a ruthless faculty for "stepping through or over obstacles...
...reason for this is that many manufacturers who will be ready to switch to civilian merchandise are not makers of goods but assemblers. But the makers (manufacturers of steel, chemicals, textiles, etc.), who supply semi-finished goods to the assemblers (manufacturers of automobiles, radios, alarm clocks, etc.), will still be tied up with war work till varying dates and in varying degrees...
Both sides of the vital Polish issue currently holding the spotlight at the San Francisco Conference were defended last night at a forum in the Astronomical Observatory Library here. The discussion was one in a series of semi-weekly forums on international relations sponsored by the Observatory...
...such arty goings-on would ordinarily mean the kiss of death to a Hollywood career; but not in Minnelli's case. His semi-surrealist juxtapositions, accidental or no, help turn The Clock into a rich image of a great city. His love of mobility, of snooping and sailing and drifting and drooping his camera booms and dollies, makes The Clock, largely boom-shot, one of the most satisfactorily flexible movies since Friedrich Murnau's epoch-making The Last Laugh...
...Forty-six-year-old progressive John J. Sherman of the Minneapolis Star-Journal sent the Cincinnati show a swirling, semi-abstract Minnesota Landscape by Minneapolis Modernist Mac Le Sueur...