Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter. Some longtime members of the Democratic Party have resigned in disgust. More ominous are the first signs of disaffection in Turkey's heretofore scrupulously nonpolitical army. The government admitted last week that it had arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes...
...Belgrade, the semi-official news agency Yugopress declared the French government "permitted itself to make a precedent in international relations which could have far-reaching consequences...
Mattei set out to harry the major U.S. and British oil companies with every means at his disposal. He tried unsuccessfully to drive foreign oil firms from semi-autonomous Sicily, succeeded, through his influence over the Italian Parliament, in getting them excluded from Italy's promising Po Valley. Then, in a far more ambitious challenge, he began to move into the Middle East, offering Arab governments terms seemingly more generous than the standard fifty-fifty split negotiated by British and American companies. Under one such agreement, an E.N.I, subsidiary is now producing some 600,000 metric tons...
With the help of a semi-full-court press, Holworthy climbed back into competition from an 11 to 2 deficit at the end of the first period. Four quick set shots closed the gap to 11 to 10, and the score at the half read...
...Noble lost to Joe Seckler of Penn State, wrestling unattached, 7 to 5. When Seckler injured his knee, he was unable to continue in the meet, depriving Noble of a chance to enter the consolation rounds. To continue after a loss, the loser's opponent must advance into the semi-finals...