Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canal. German prisoners of war, crawling back from the Bolshevik wastes after World War I, brought with them legends of the escape of one of the Russian royal family. In 1920 the half-dead body of an unidentified young woman was dragged from a Berlin canal. She claimed in semi-delirium that she was Anastasia. Two years passed before even the girl herself, closeted in a mental hospital, could piece together a coherent story of how, aided by two brothers named Tchaikovsky, she had been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed...
Economic boss Mikhail G. Pervukhin and Finance Minister Arseny G. Zverev outlined the plans at the opening session of a semi-annual meeting of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's Parliament...
Jordan spoke before Radcliffe's semi-annual student government Cedar Hill Conference at Cabot Hall. The mass meeting of the Student Council, Administration, dorm officers and heads of organizations reviews Annex facilities and activities, referring recommendations to appropriate decision-making bodies...
Radio and television, as semi-public media, should consider this legislation as more of an opportunity for public service than as an imposition...
...attacked televised variety shows with their "semi-naked ladies" and singers "bleating, yelling moronishly monotonous" songs, and then rose from his chair to give his interpretation of ballet on television. Sorokin also noted the gradual degenaration of literature to the point where it now shows "moral disintegration...