Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national level, G.O.P. candidates won only 40% of the seats in the House of Representatives during the 1962 mid-term election, even though they collected 48% of the votes. Last year, after nearly two-thirds of the states had redrawn their congressional districts to make them more nearly equal in population, Republicans increased their share of House seats to 43% while increasing their share of the vote only to 48.3%. Roughly a dozen states are still at work reapportioning their congressional districts; only last week, a federal court threw out a 1966 redistricting plan adopted by New York and ordered...
...mid-1930s Hemingway was the celebrated author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; he had a tough and masculine image to live up to. He harpooned a 50-ft. sperm whale off the coast of Cuba, and he also clumsily managed to shoot him self through both calves with a .22 Colt automatic. He was doing his writing at Key West in those days, and "to discourage visitors while he is at work your correspondent has hired an aged Negro who appears to be the victim of an odd disease resembling leprosy who meets visitors...
...wear designers-Coty Award Winner Dominic of Matty Talmack, plus Chester Weinberg and Luba of Elite-are suggesting the "midi dress," with hem 4 in. below the knee. And in London, where the miniskirt was invented, such young mod newcomers as Ossie Clarke and Roland Klein are including mid-calf lengths in their fall lines. Says Clarke: "This summer will be one last fling to show your legs. Next year the idea will be to wrap 'em up warm...
...colonialist snobbery, whites up through the 19th century shunned the tropical sun, carried parasols, wore big-brimmed hats and left exposure to nonwhites, whom nature has kindly endowed with pigment protection. A white man's tan, in fact, is the result of a dark pigment that rises from mid-level layers of the skin in an effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight had been publicized as a treatment for tuberculosis. It does indeed increase body production...
...persons unknown who set off a bomb outside the Montgomery home of Johnson's 69-year-old mother two weeks ago. The Johnsons have lost friends, though "none we wanted to keep." They belong to Montgomery's handsome country club, but the judge confines his avid golfing (mid-80s) to a few open-minded military partners at nearby Maxwell Air Force Base, where "it's easier to be just Frank Johnson." He is not about to defend his decisions by writing articles or giving law-school lectures. "Judges make their decrees...