Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deeper than the question of subsistence--that even if the liberal dream of integrating all poor people into the manageable middle class could somehow be realized, that man's self-image would still be defeated, and that a substantial group of the middle class would move back to the semi-poverty of Howell's hard living families and the old structure would begin to be recreated...
Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, said yesterday that peace will not come to the Middle East until the U.S. and Russia intervene diplomatically. Lipset said the two great powers should act as lawyers for the combatants to arrive at a "semi-imposed" solution
...Committee has purchased from the Corporation the names of 4000 black high school seniors who have been selected semi-finalists or have received Merit commendations this fall, he said. About half of these blacks will be sent a letter, now being drafted by Evans, which requests that they apply to Harvard...
...hijacking represented "war" or "warlike operations," and thus was excluded from general or all-risk insurance. Frankel concluded that even the term "warlike operations" does not "encompass the infliction of intentional violence" by nongovernmental political groups upon civilians far from the scene of any regular fighting. Even if the semi-organized armed clashes with Israeli forces were "warlike," that would scarcely extend "the adjective to all bombings, killings and destruction anywhere under P.F.L.P. auspices." The judge went on to state that the relatively tiny group's activities were also not part of any "civil war," "insurrection," "riot," or "civil...
...stories in the first of the collection (thus readable immediately, with no waiting) is called Southern Throughway. It concerns a monstrous traffic jam that develops when vacationers make the mistake of trying to return to Paris one hot Sunday afternoon. As sweat, futility, broiled metal and curses coagulate into semi-permanency (the jam continues through the night, through the next day, the next night, endures for a week, persists for a month, maybe for two months, well into snowy weather), the response of the afflicted motorists is, astonishingly, to become human. They leave their cars, sporadically talk, exchange rumors...