Word: semi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walking into a strip club, the adrenaline starts pumping through the body in anticipation of vicarious thrills. But then, once in, I looked up at the semi-nude dancer, and it was no big deal. She was just dancing--doing...
...nearly equaled the four golds of Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen 40 years ago. The sex symbol of sprinting made her most dramatic strides into the record books with a stunning 200-meter race. In her first heat, she set a new Olympic record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated it in the final with a time of 21.34 seconds. When she saw her time, Florence kneeled on the track in ecstasy. Then her husband and coach Al Joyner ran onto the field, took...
...fast track about as friendly as Iran and Iraq. Johnson, who seems to glower with power even in repose, had declared, "I want to win an Olympic gold medal. After that I don't care -- Carl Lewis could beat me 100 times." For his part, Lewis was on his semi-best behavior. "A number of people can win," he declared beforehand, his mother Evelyn sitting by his side. During the heats, Lewis' times were faster. Johnson, who had been hobbled earlier in the year by a hamstring injury, did not look good. But was he pulling up -- or pulling...
...Although Monroe knows the material best, Peter Goldman--a white, albeit highly respected Newsweek editor and writer--is the author. The irony was sufficient to compel Goldman to explain why he was chosen to author a book which attempts to give voice to those who are usually mute. His semi-apology, that he is more experienced than Monroe, conforms too well to the by-now-standard reasoning used to justify the lofty positions that are still the preserve of whites...
Mediagate, which goes for $12.95 from the Atlantic Monthly Press, followed last year's successful USA Today parody. Former Vice President William L. Oakley '88 of the Lampoon, a semi-secret social club that occasionally publishes parodies, said the McPaper spoof sold 1.2 million copies...