Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what museums buy. Last week the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center had on view its fifth biennial show of new acquisitions by U.S. museums. Among the 59 pictures by contemporary U.S. painters, 14 works were realistic. Thirteen were completely nonobjective. Of the rest, a majority could be described as semi-decipherable, mainly because the artists gave a hint of their meanings by the titles. Said Director James Byrnes of the Fine Arts Center: "Nonobjective painting is not confined to any one place. It has permeated to the grass roots. Regionalism is essentially dead, and representational painting has almost been submerged...
After having kept everyone waiting two years, Frenchmen found themselves alone, and many took pride in the fact. They felt a semi-righteous anger, as if everybody else was to blame for putting France on the spot, for failing to understand that EDC really never had a chance. To the end EDC partisans fought for a compromise which, even if successful, was the end of EDC as it had been...
Dusting the sawdust off his hands, Ike flew back to Washington, picked up a lot of paper work, and with Mamie took off for Denver and semi-vacation. On the plane the President signed into law 41 acts of Congress in 40 minutes, then relaxed. At Denver he greeted his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elivera Doud, and said: "Well, we're back again, Min. Boy, am I delighted...
...played end on the Attleboro High School football team, and his snappy work at shortstop brought an offer of a scholarship to Dartmouth. Joe turned it down, decided instead to help out the family by reporting for the Attleboro Sun and playing semi-pro baseball for the town and local industrial teams...
Duttweiler's successful price-cutting has frequently brought trouble from his cartel-minded competitors. But "Dutti," as he is fondly known to his customers, was never fazed by that. When manufacturers of standard brands refused to sell to his cut-rate "Migros" (like demigros, i.e., semi-wholesale) stores, he set up his own factories to turn out everything from soap to noodles. When newspapers turned down his ads, he started a paper of his own. When the government passed laws directed against him and his stores, he formed his own political party, was elected to the Swiss parliament...