Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having arrived late Sunday night to spend the week here, he will lead daily discussion groups and round tables on his semi-native country, dealing not only in the political and military aspects, but also the cultural and human angle as well...
...purges' being carried out in France and Belgium, as the Soviet Government conceives them, ought to include the prominent men who some day may recover enough authority to lead the attack against the semi-revolutionary regimes of today...
Born in Rock Springs, Wyo. in 1900, Florabel roughed out a semi-frontier childhood with ten brothers and sisters. After graduation from the University of Washington, she tried schoolteaching, dropped it for reporting. The newspaper circuit took her to the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the now extinct San Francisco Journal, the tabloid New York Daily News, then back to Los Angeles...
...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...
...prosperous, Europeans looked surprisingly healthy and well-fed. Much of the appearance was misleading. In Western Europe, the well-to-do had enough to eat. But among the poorer population, particularly in the city slums, there was not enough food. Nowhere did the liberators see starvation. But constant semi-starvation and diet deficiencies were leaving their mark on a whole European generation...