Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every honest newspaper man in Washington last week knew the existence of a semi-organized campaign to spread lies about the British, particularly about alleged British misuse of Lend-Lease funds. For two weeks one such story made the rounds of irresponsible gossips: that the British in Washington were running up huge café and restaurant bills for rare wines, whiskey, food, were charging it all to Lend-Lease funds. The British were further supposed to have ordered the installation of 100 portable air-conditioning units in their hotel rooms; to have chatted for hours with Canadian friends by long...
...fast, ultra-mobile weapons will dart at and around enemy tank formations, get in a death punch at the closest possible range, then scurry away from enemy fire. This mobility is about all the protection the crews of the open, unarmored 3 7-mm. carriers have. Even the semi-armored 75s are open at the top, thus are vulnerable to "plunging fire" from enemy aircraft, artillery, machine guns. Army designers had deliberately decided not to enclose crews and guns in armored turrets. The Army's reasoning: in anti-tank warfare, speed is vital, and more weight is bound...
Observing caustically that "with Burma sitting on a powder keg herself, I see no reason why she should take money at the expense of a potential military ally," at week's end he had goaded Whitehall authorities into making "urgent" official representations to semi-autonomous Burma, suggesting immediate lifting...
...conquered countries would be "semi-autonomous." >-All continental Europe would disarm except for a "Pan-European Army" under German control...
...Poland, a Czech State, Yugoslavia and Greece would be "semi-autonomous...