Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expedition explored a 40 by 60 feet house mound in which they dug to the middle of a room. Upon their return last summer, they continued digging and found that the room was part of a five room house. The Eskimos, research revealed, lived in semi-subterranean houses, with sod block walls erected around frames of drift wood and whale bones. This form of building is unique at barrow, for most other Eskimo dwellings are single room houses of smaller size...
...Eisenhower Administration, like the Truman Administration, has properly refused to make public derogatory material about individuals which appears unchecked in FBI files. But if the material in these files is to be leaked to Senators by employees of the executive departments, it will become the subject of semi-public debate. Such debate can be more harmful to a man in Bohlen's position than an open accusation...
...tourists, except retired multimillionaires, could ever find time or money to travel so high, wide and handsomely as 29-year-old Tennis Star Victor Seixas (No. 2 m U.S. rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command...
...definitely be able to follow Comrade Stalin's behest to drive forward . . ." First the party, then the government, then Malenkov. One possible explanation: Mao recognizes that any struggle for power in Russia would inevitably spill over into China; alone of all subordinates, he dared pursue a course of semi-neutrality until certain who is in the saddle in Moscow...
...Twenty-two of the names (including Actor Howard da Silva, Actress Anne Revere, and three of the moviemakers who were shouted out of Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal...