Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police soon found the weapon, a new .243-cal. Remington semi-automatic rifle, in an air shaft at Hunter College, a block from the mission, and traced it to an 18-year-old Brooklyn youth known to be "an activist" in the fanatically anti-Soviet J.D.L...
Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...
...Harvard meets Penn again this season, it will be in the NCAA semi-finals in Florida. And despite Friday night's debacle, if most of Harvard's stars are physically sound by then, the smart money will still be on the Crimson...
Although Tate's early work can, on occasion, be derivative or hesitant ("It begins in uncertainty," said one critic, "and attains meaning only during composition"), his more mature poems are unquestionably written in his own voice--elegant, allusive, densely packed like semi-precious stones inside a glass paperweight. His later poems show a solidity, a self-confidence, not always removed from stubborness...
...cause of such excess and overt jubilation, but it's been a long time since Pittsburgh had a winner. After 20 years of failure, Steeler fans have had to rejoice over mediocrity instead of success. In basketball and hockey, the Penguins and Condors offer only slightly more than semi-pro success. For the past decade, Pittsburgh has been savoring the victories of Arnold Palmer and the 1960 Pirates. After 11 years of memories, victory was a little too sweet...