Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere between allies turned ugly. Rhee proclaimed a "semi-extraordinary emergency" throughout South Korea; spokesmen talked of "spontaneous demonstrations" about to begin. U.N. commanders, exasperated yet sympathetic, tried to guess how much Rhee might be bluffing and could not be sure. They also wondered whether Rhee would be able to control and limit anything he began in so explosive a moment. They told each other that after all, had it not been for the U.N., Rhee would have been pushed into the sea. They talked over the pressures they might bring to bear. The U.N. controls his supplies, gasoline, ammunition...
Three days after the dismissal some 350 students crowded a campus auditorium to form student Committees to fight Lenz's removal. Placards and chalked-up signs "Don't lease Lenz to the German Department" were displayed on the Queen's campus. And at the semi-annual meeting of the Faculty Division of Languages, Literature, and Art, one third of the entire faculty passed five resolutions condemning President John J. Theobold's action in dismissing Lenz...
...Kansan received threatening letters and phone calls, and the Dean of Journalism was urged through similar calls to take some action. The Student Council publicly criticized the Kansan for violating its charter agreement to "maintain a semi-conservative policy and remain neutral in politics on and off the Campus...
...fell upon indirect fiscal controls, chiefly the restriction of credit. Though Eisenhower's moneymen have moved with seeming sureness, even they know that they are sailing, uncharted fiscal waters. For the first time, the U.S. is trying a great experiment: control of the ups and downs of a semi-war economy by fiscal and credit means alone...
...World and the West, by Arnold Toynbee. A provocative interpretation of the history of the past six centuries, capped with a venture in semi-prophecy (TIME, April...