Word: semi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...near the exit, I turn to watch the semi-celebrities down their last cocktails, finish munching on cookies, and trickle out into the humid Manhattan summer night. The premiere wasn’t quite the glamorous gathering I’d been expecting, but gallivanting with the jet set is fun while it lasts...
...course was on my way back up the stairs, into the dreaded concourse where my coveted press pass might be revoked at any moment, the din of the first of a host of semi-anonymous Kerry apologists trickling through the doorways back into the hall...
...detect small boats, the binoculars are out on the bridge. The FFV is spotted! There's a rush of excitement and purpose as the four officers who make up a boarding party assemble on the aft deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into the water. Coxswain Brad Walker thumps the boat into a slight swell on a 20-knot south-easterly, zooming toward the target under a blazing midday...
...after a horrific car accident. They've been sending passionate (and frankly kind of sexy) letters to each other since they were 13, but they've never actually met. In fact, Alice refuses to let Gerard come to visit her. Does she have some connection to Gerard's creepy, semi-insane mom, who's also English? And to those Victorian horror tales that Gerard keeps stumbling across? What's she hiding, anyway? The answers are yes, yes, and wait...
...been laughed at by the men in the Egyptian travel agency, who had me repeat Arabic phrases but wouldn’t tell me what they meant. I have been laughed at by the guard in front of my dorm when I flinched at his casual toss of his semi-automatic. And though I might have been cold, embarrassed or scared, I laughed back...