Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took three decisions--9 to 0, 5 to 2, and 6 to 2--to get into the semi-finals and registered a second period pin with a cradle hold to carry off first place honors...
...Louria, now attending the Medical School, won one match on default and gained a 4 to 1 decision over Joe Cardinucel to defend his 191-pound championship. Pete Fuller, competing in the heavyweight division, also took one match on default, scored a 3 to 0 decision in the semi-finals and pinned Dick Towel of Providence in the second period of the finals...
...stories under fire appeared in "Private Lives," a semi-weekly gossip column, on December 14. On January 10 the notice of probation was printed on the front page of the paper...
...country's administration is flabby and corrupt; despite ECAid, its economy is semi-paralyzed by public distrust. Recently, when a Greek businessman sought ECA backing for a gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani...
...fate of Great Novgorod, whose crime was the independence and rebelliousness of its inhabitants, belongs in the long and bloody list of massacres perpetrated by tyrants in the name of "national unity." When Ivan the Terrible came to the throne in 1547, Russia was still a collection of semi-independent states; when he died 37 years later, in the midst of a quiet game of chess, the central authority of the Czar in Moscow was recognized even by those whose powers of recognition had been burnt from their eye-sockets with red-hot irons...