Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team entered the playoffs with a 5-2 record, with losses only to Eliot and Lowell. After tearing apart Currier, 7-2, the freshmen surprised perennial favorite Kirkland, 6-2. Mather succumbed 5-2 to the upstarts in the semi-finals...
Team member Giles Birch called the journey "semi-serious." Asked about the opportunity to mix business with pleasure, he remarked, "we always to seem to manage that...
...proposal for a Reagan library got caught in a crossfire between the largely liberal Stanford faculty and the predominantly conservative Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a semi-independent research facility of 70 fellows located on the Palo Alto campus. The Institution was founded in 1919 with $50,000 from Stanford Alumnus Herbert Hoover. Its charter: to study the forces of modern economic and political change. Since 1959, when Economist Glenn Campbell was appointed director and the institution enlarged its mission to "protect the American way of life," it has developed a reputation as one of the nation...
...addresses the flip side of the country's trials. Her most winning character is, in a sense, the lazy, sunlit hill town of San Felice Val Gufo, whose main industry is gossip and main activity leisure. Its happy-go-lucky air is eminently well suited to the semi-elegant foreign riffraff-lascivious artists, terminal good-for-nothings, dotty Brits, retired CIA agents and indiscriminate snobs-who haunt the area. So blundering and blustering are the idle expatriates that the locals are moved to conclude that "foreigners were almost like real people...
When Lyndon Johnson had a serious heart attack in 1955, a lot of people thought he would be a semi-invalid. His doctor, Vice Admiral George Burkley, found that Johnson's heart functioned normally through five years of the presidency. When Johnson, believing he would lose the 1968 election, reluctantly went home, he seemed to lose purpose, reverted to bad eating and smoking habits, and died in four years...