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Word: halfway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal from the President for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns, but Congress responded by completing action on a measure so toothless?it provides for little more than a ban on mail-order handguns?as to please even the N.R.A. Johnson scorned it as "watered-down" and "halfway," dropped hints that he might veto the entire crime bill of which it is a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...destruction was too widespread to be happenstance. Items: Several burned neckties. A smashed mirror. A torn book titled What I Believe. A row of glass bottles, their necks grotesquely melted halfway down inside their bodies. A series of self-destructing slides-on their first showing, they melt and dissolve in the projector's heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Destruction Can Be Beautiful Or Can It? | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

Tibbetts has played seventh man for Harvard all season, but picked up his pace yesterday as he blazed through his first 18 in even par 71 to take a three-stroke lead over Keefe, Lopucki, and Heisler, who all came in with 74's at the halfway mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golfers Keep Greater Boston Crown | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

...Halfway through the car model-year, automakers were elated to learn last week that sales during the normally dull quarter from January to March were surprisingly high. A spurt of car buying during the last ten days of March had already started Detroiters smiling, but it was not until overall figures were published that their most optimistic extrapolations could be verified. More than 2,000,000 cars were sold in the quarter-up 18% over the same months of 1967. The volume for the first quarter of 1968 was surpassed only in the record years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Picking Up the Pace | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Holy Cross's first tally came halfway through the third period when a midfielder made a fast break and passed to John Vrionis, who made the score. With a midfielder out on a penalty, the Harvard defense let another goal through at the beginning of the fourth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Massacre Holy Cross, 23-2; Tie Record for High Score Set in '61 | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

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