Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without its oil, pouring from the ground at a rate of 1,000,000 barrels a day and earning the nation an estimated $250 million this year, Iran would simply be another semi-arid pastoral and agricultural nation like its neighbor Afghanistan. Without the special qualities of its 19 million people, who have been taught cleverness and patience by history, are generally more devoted to their kinsmen than their nation, and are suspicious of every move by those in power, Iran would be an easier country to govern. For example, Iranian slum dwellers have been known to refuse to move...
...proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in the land of the great Berber warriors who established the medieval Almoravide empire and built the fabled city of Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo, and big (496,000 sq. mi.), semi-arid Chad. Though France had expected its territories to act as they did, there seemed little doubt that the announcement from Accra had brought on the sudden burst of speed...
Speaking of cartoons, there are some animated ones on the same bill, all UPA, that also are some of the best in their line. With them as a short subject, semi-cartoon, semi-surrealism, is a remarkable film in which designs and drawings have been painted directly on the frames of the film strip itself. It races by in wild color and sound like a fast dream, and is just as fascinating. Feature and shorts combined, the Kenmore this week is probably the best light film bill you will see in Boston all winter...
...observed a non-reading critic in the discussion afterwards, "the narrator's authority of voice in the first work has no advantage over the conscious semi-abnegation of the possible total event knowledge on the author's part in the third story...
Watching the barely seaworthy fleet, so top-heavy that the lower guns rolled awash in a moderate sea, manned by semi-mutinous sailors and officered by incompetents, a staff officer groaned in despair: "This is simply nothing but a fraud-an infamous fraud." It would have been, without Admiral Rozhestvensky, a towering, bearded figure who bellowed crews into submission, fired live ammunition at ships slow in answering signals, bullied Hamburg-Amerika colliers into following the fleet to coal...