Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Mattoon was gripped by semi-hysteria. Authorities were poring over records of patients released from Illinois insane asylums, seeking a clue to the Mad Anesthetist's identity; five state police cars arrived to help. Private automobiles full of vigilantes armed with shotguns rolled slowly along the streets at night. Other citizens were taking pistols and shotguns to bed, and sleeping behind closed windows. Mattoon's police commissioner, as alarmed by this display of armament as by the depredations of the Anesthetist, pleaded with the vigilantes to disband...
...nurse, made a speech, next day was back in bed. One of ASCAP's top-ranking members (A Perfect Day alone has sold over 8,000,000 copies), she has grown rich on her royalties, still turned out songs until six months ago, when she became a semi-invalid. Her latest is called Because. Said she: "My songs have brought me everything I could want...
...semi-pro National Guard had contributed 76 generals, and perhaps they were the cases to point the way to wider leadership by citizen soldiers in the postwar Army. In World War II the top jobs had apparently been parceled out in fairly direct proportion to training in the years of peace...
...Lebanese Christians who fear engulfment in a Moslem bloc, the Greater Syria plan offers a "privileged" regime. To the 600,000 Jews of Palestine the plan promises "semi-autonomy" inside the larger Arab framework, with Jewish local government in predominantly Jewish areas (e.g., Tel-Aviv), but Arab government elsewhere...
...gone into this semi-deserted mansion to obtain a better view of the battle. As we entered the hall, covered with dust and broken glass, we were amazed to see a magnificent early Florentine crucifix hanging among the smashed mirrors and torn paper...