Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Napier struggled to repulse the sorties of Cochrane, Garrity, and center Randy Millen, Brian Petrovek came out showing his midseason from as he robbed John Stornik in front of the crease and kicked aside Carl English's semi-breakaway...
...Harvard riders never seemed to get used to the strange terrain of the Skidmore ring which was dry sawdust instead of the customary semi-packed dirt surface. Crisply hit shots rolled fifteen or twenty feet and sunk rather than flying across the arena. "It was terrible--we had to use our mallets like shovels to dig the ball out of the ground," Lodge said...
...Yoruba, semi-official language in western Nigeria, having abundant modern literature, spoken by more than five million people...
...semi-official language of eastern Nigeria, spoken by more than three and a half million people...
Carter continued to emit somewhat conflicting signals, sounding semi-tough on human rights but also urging mutual accommodation on arms. He said he would "speak out strongly and forcefully whenever human rights are threatened-not every instance, but when I think it's advisable." Moreover, he added that such statements, directed at the Soviet Union, need not impair mutual efforts at arms control. He thus rejected former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's theory of "linkage" in diplomacy, according to which different issues between the two superpowers are inevitably intertwined. Still, chances are that some linkage will remain...