Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brave boast of "Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute," Americans have forked over uncounted billions for their military establishment. Though most of the money has gone up-rather literally-in smoke, a handsome residue remains. Last week a Defense Department accounting of its assets as of mid-1966 showed that it was worth $183.6 billion, a $7.3 billion increase over the 1965 total...
Sprawl & Smog. Washington's Daniel Evans, one of the most dynamic of the young Republican Governors, observed, in a mid-term address to the legislature, that his state now faces the explosive growth that California has experienced. He asked for more and better state and local planning as well as for a department of transportation and an environmental quality commission to make sure that the state does not suffer from sprawl and smog. Love proposed similar action for Colorado, gloomily noting that the present "evidence is that we are in the process of destroying much of our natural environment...
...military and make a real man out of you," one college graduate from the mid-West tells his college roommate. "The army makes you grow up and develop a sense of judgement much more quickly than civilian life," says another veteran...
...Crimson's shot at the Green comes at Hanover, N.H., Wednesday; so if everything goes as predicted Harvard and Cornell will share the lead over the mid-year break. IVY STANDINGS W L GF GA Cornell 2 1 12 10 Harvard 2 1 12 7 Princeton 1 1 10 11 Yale 1 1 7 8 Brown 1 2 18 14 Dartmouth...
...play is John Hawkes's "The Undertaker," a surrealistic and occasionally metaphysical fatherson dialogue. Father and son, the cast-of-characters tells us, are both in their "mid-forties." (Confuting us again, it tells us that the father is "a small-two undertaker"; this proves a misprint for "small-town...