Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychological Attack. Moscow's men launched a new English-language semi monthly magazine, quaintly christened News. Piped the first issue of News: "We do not believe that war is inevitable...
Died. Hugh Casey, 38, burly onetime relief pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who set a record in the 1947 World Series when he was called from the bullpen in six of the seven games; by his own hand; in Atlanta, Ga. Depressed by his fall from big-league to semi-pro ball, by a messy paternity suit, a $6,759 tax lien and a reported heart ailment, the onetime "Fat Fireman of Flatbush" telephoned to his estranged wife, told her "I'm all dead inside," then, as she listened, shot and killed himself...
...Incas. Ever since, Peruvians have cherished the 40 million sea birds whose droppings make high-grade fertilizer (guano) for Peruvian farmers. In Inca days, the penalty for molesting the birds was death. Now the protection of the guano birds (cormorants, boobies and pelicans) is the care of the semi-official Compaia Administradora del Guano, set up in 1909 to develop the country's evil-smelling guano deposits...
BUDGE PATTY, 27, defending champion and semi-reformed playboy, a player with a deft, steady touch (and a bad ankle), who has not won a major tournament in a year...
...criticize Peron's dictatorial style. Last week, as the President prepared to run for a second term in 1952, Argentina's government loosed a blast against Peron's favorite electioneering target, the U.S. The attack was launched in the front page of Buenos Aires' semi-official newspaper Democrada, in an editorial signed by "Descartes," a writer generally believed to be Peron himself. Wrote Descartes...