Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directions. A light, hard-hitting automatic rifle is something that many allied infantrymen have been praying for ever since World War II. Combat experience showed that bulky semi-automatic rifles (i.e., one shot for each trigger pull), like the 10-lb. U.S. Garand, were too heavy, and fired too slowly for close-in defense. What the infantry wanted was a light rifle that would shoot accurately at long range, and could also double as a Tommy gun for close-in combat...
Shields's choice placed an almost unbearable burden on semi-retired Schroeder, and it ignored the man who, on the basis of his Wimbledon and Australian championships, is generally considered the U.S.'s No. 1 player. Dick Savitt, who had been blasted earlier by Shields for his "stupid" play, promptly sounded off: "I still think the deal was arranged before we ever left America. I've been beating Ted in practice...
...championships for the second year, beat Squires in four games, 15-9, 16-17, 15-9, 15-10. Last year Henry Foster, Harvard captain and number one, also won the invitation championship, defeating Blair Murphy of Yale in the finals. In 1950 Ufford got as far as the semi-finals, forcing Foster to go five games before losing...
This year Ufford beat Bob Dewey of Yale in the semi-finals in five games, 15-12, 15-6, 9-15, 10-15, 15-5. Squires defeated the first-seeded Murphy in his semi-final match in straight games...
Adapted by Scripter Peter Viertel from George Howe's Christopher Award-winning 1949 novel, Call It Treason, the. picture is a bang-up job of moviemaking. To tell the story of German prisoners of war who worked as U.S. spies, Director Anatole (The Snake Pit) Litvak goes the semi-documentary technique one better: he uses locations in 16 German cities and towns not merely as backgrounds but as living sets to re-enact the chaos of a battered, squalid Germany in the critical winter of 1945. The canvas is broad, the detail meticulous, the effect overwhelmingly real...