Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's top four industrial centers, producing more than 90% of the nation's aluminum; at Anzio, south of Rome, the greatest excitement since the Allied landing is Colgate-Palmolive's new $10 million soap and cosmetics plant, turning out 120 different items on a semi-automated production line. "That plant," says one admiring competitor, "is a monument to private enterprise...
...bowl end, are inhabited by a motley crew of young (i.e., poor) alumni, our wives and assorted children. The wives have doffed their party garb of Wellesley days and come prepared for the elements. The kids hoot at the referees, opposing players, and other urchins. They eat semi-raw hot dogs and are watered by harried fathers with distressing frequency--usually on a TD play...
...Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend on a semi-global scale over a seven-year period? To some newsmen, it was all Greek, but others soon zeroed in on an American, a handsome, blonde Riviera expatriate, J. (for Jeanne) Schley R. (for Rhinelander), 34, divorced in 1952 from Manhattan Landynast T. (for Thomas) J (for Jackson) Oakley Rhinelander...
...SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net, designed to spot incoming enemy bombers for Bomarc and other antiaircraft weapons, has already cost $1.2 billion, is not yet fully operational. In the 1961 budget, SAGE requests additional funds to harden (encase in concrete) some of its installations, presumably against missile blows, although SAGE itself will be useless in the missile...
With an experienced line that may be the best in the League, and a carload of very promising backs, the Crimson may well be the team to beat in 1960, even with Holy Cross as a first opponent and the now semi-automatic loss to Brown assumed. Harvard football looks ready to continue its upswing...