Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colorado Native Society (membership requirement: a Colorado birth certificate) took to the road with bumper stickers resembling the state license plate but proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES? Came the inevitable answer, I CARE...
...fluctuating health bulletins from Gemelli, before the operation, prompted speculation in the press that John Paul might do the unthinkable and abdicate, rather than limp along as a semi-invalid Pope confining his actions to the minutiae of the Vatican bureaucracy. There had even been talk of a new papal conclave. This time around, the early favored papabili were Italians who have reputations as seasoned administrators. One was Casaroli, a moderate who has gained exposure as John Paul's loyal second in command. The other: Giovanni Benelli, 60, the conservative, often abrasive Archbishop of Florence, who was runner...
...published in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health, was conducted by three researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Knud J. Helsing, Moyses Szklo and George W. Comstock followed the lives of 1,204 men and 2,828 women in semi-rural Washington County, Md., who were widowed between 1963 and 1974. With each spouse's death, the survivor was matched with a still married person, cross-referenced for comparison not only by race, sex and age, but also by such factors as years of schooling, age at first marriage...
...there it was, covering the city like a thick, yellow, semi-transparent blanket. And this was a sunny day! You look straight up and you see blue sky, but look across the horizon, and your view is cut off after a couple of miles by that blanket of claus ophobic petrochemicals...
...Santa Monica, which is really just an extension of Los Angeles--everything out there is just an extension of L.A. I didn't get to see much of downtown L.A., but I was told that downtown L.A. doesn't really exist. The city is spread out like a vast semi-subrub. Driving through Los Angeles is like driving through an endless stretch of Somerville; it's noisy and hectic and you keep waiting for the suburbs to appear, but they never do. Everything is made out of stucco. Stucco banks, stucco taco joints, stucco supermarkets and stucco homes...