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...Wellesley halfway point, Canadian Ronald Wallingford took a temporary lead, but Shigematsu, Shishidok, Nakao, Funasako, and Matsubara were now right behind. The Japanese moved on to finish in exactly that order. Wallingford faded back to eleventh, dropping be hind Ostbye at tenth, Valle at ninth; Eino Oksanen, a past winner from Finland, at eighth; and Ralph Buschmann, the leading American in the race, at seventh...
...literature frankly offering such fantasies would be outlawed overnight. But in the identifications available in the comic strips-in the character of the Katzenjammer Kids, in the kewpie-doll character of Blondie-both father and husband can be thoroughly beaten up, harassed, humiliated and degraded daily. Lulled by these halfway aggressions-that is to say, halfway to murder-the censorship demands only that in the final sequence Hans & Fritz must submit to flagellation for their 'naughtiness,' Blondie to the inferior position of being, after all, merely a wife...
...Floats. At the halfway point, Hall was already five laps ahead of his nearest pursuer, a Ferrari-and still pouring it on. "We're afraid of rain," he wryly explained during a pit stop. "This is a light car with big tires, and it floats when it hits a puddle." The rains came, so heavily that waves of water washed up the Chaparral's nose into the cockpit. Hall had to cut his speed to 10 m.p.h. But the Ferrari was having trouble too, gave up with four hours to go. The rain stopped, and the race...
...despises Sam for making her live poor and for playing the "little tin Jesus." She spends her life cursing him, beating her babies, kissing them better, robbing their piggy banks, fighting off loan sharks, sneaking off to see a stupid lover and viciously cheating at solitaire. She ages disastrously. Halfway through the book she is "a black-eyed, feverishly rouged hag with blazing yellow skin" and a mind that is slowly coming apart...
...Gamaliel Harding, for whose newspaper he worked as a boy in Marion, Ohio. It wasn't long before Thomas fled to the fringe of the political spectrum of Harding's day; and at eighty years of age--wise and somewhat weary--he has seen the political consensus meet him halfway. In the process he has both learned and taught as much as one man can ever hope...