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Word: semis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forties we didn't understand what a little pusher Calkins was. We were taken by his enormous propriety. His character at Harvard was that of a well-trained student guy who doesn't fuck around. He's the perfect example of a man not really upper-class, but a semi-decayed pilgrim descendant who had to make good on his own. He's the prime example of the paragon good boy-never made a mistake...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Class of '45: The Blood Runs Thin? | 6/10/1970 | See Source »

...race, and Unser is confident about ?? chances. But Mario Andretti domied practice in much the same way in ?? and 1967, only to fall out early in race. The fact is, only seven times ?? the race been won from the pole. ?? last time was 1963, when Unser's ?? owner, the semi-retired Parnelli ??, took the checkered rag. As good ??nser's chances look, and they do look good, he will be beating the odds if he wins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Racer's Weekend: ???ndianapolis 1970 | 5/29/1970 | See Source »

...from the yellow, and there in its place is a portrait of Yoko Ono. Black-and-white photograph, it has Yoko's grey face in the center, around that her black hair and shroud (which fall to the edge of the disc). and over that a white semi-halo. Across Yoko's black frontis are the magnificent gold letters g-r-a-p-e-f-r-u-i-t. But returning to yin-and-yang, what strikes one so about the portrait is that Yoko looks so strangely man-woman, so ambiguously east-and-west...

Author: By Larry Meyer, | Title: Off the Shelf Grapefruit | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

...Eastern semi-finalist last year as a sophomore. Coleman was elected captain after rolling up a 12-5-2 record, including three Ivy victories. He was out of action for three weeks in February with a torn cartilage, but returned for the final portion of the league action...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Faller Is Unanimous First Team Choice By Coaches for All-Ivy Wrestling Team | 5/5/1970 | See Source »

...Cummings' Him. Lionel appeared on radio with Fred Allen and Fanny Brice. Then he drifted into movies, where he scored as a poet-of all things-in The Scoundrel (1934). His face (complete with unmatching eyes) and gargantuan physique made him a natural for the type of comic semi-heavy (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, A Star Is Born) so ubiquitous in the '30s. "Everybody's pal, that was me. If I had a romance, it had to be funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lion of the Via Veneto | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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