Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans have traditionally conceived of South America as a semi-dark continent, filled with languid Latins who occasionally excite themselves in unnecessary and harmless revolutions. With this attitude prevailing in the United States, Latin America has been for the most part ignored, the State Department bestirring itself only when European powers appear about to take over. Of late, American foreign policy has almost entirely been concerned with building a defense ring in Europe and Asia. This is an undeniably necessary project, but the probability of holding the Asian line is at most doubtful. Should much of our support in other...
...University of Miami's touring tennis semi-pros will arrive at the Soldiers Field courts this afternoon at 2.30 p.m. to give free tennis lessons to six members of the varsity tennis squad...
Thus the tramps who trudge through The Road, a meandering, queerly poetic, semi-autobiographical novel which is the first book of Swedish Author Harry Martinson to be published in the U.S. The son of a sailor turned shopkeeper who died when the boy was only six, Author Martinson was left behind when his mother emigrated to the U.S., spent much of his boyhood and early youth tramping the world's roads and sailing the world's seas as sailor, cook, mechanic, abattoir worker and soldier of fortune...
Brock Stokes, who played behind Cooney last year, will be at one against Rutgers. At the end of last season, his game picked up considerably, and he went as far as the semi-finals in the Eastern intercollegiates at Yale. During the summer he polished up his game by playing in a number of Southern tournaments, and, on the basis of several good rounds at Pinehurst, he appears ready to start the season where he left off last year...
...through the United Nations. Should the Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops to the Gaza. Even though to let a Middle Eastern war run on unimpeded would be to permit their semi-allies, the Arabs, gradually to crush Israel, the chances are that the Russians would wish to intervene--without the Arab-Israeli balance of forces Russia would lose one of her strongest selling points in the area, Communist arms...