Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA HURRAH. Three brilliant playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie refract and reflect some of the dominant, dissonant hues in mid-20th century American life...
Born in Paris, reared in New York and Boston, and by his mid-20s a veteran of diplomatic service in World War I Europe, Christian Herter was equipped as few other statesmen to revivify the crumbling Atlantic Alliance. Yet when he succeeded John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State in 1959, his reward was frustration...
...with the sting of official disapproval removed from the act of striking, the regime has not tried to enforce all the law's stipulations. Government mediators have been working furiously since mid-December to try to head off a nationwide rail strike threatened by the National Transportation Syndicate, a supposedly docile trade union controlled by the government. In Barcelona last week, a series of sitdown strikes at the government-owned SEAT auto plant brought a government agreement to study the workers' demands for higher pay. In Bilbao, 750 sheet-metal workers have been on strike since...
...mid-December, when one of the infrequent edge-on views occurred, Dollfus photographed Saturn through a telescope at the Paris Observatory's Meudon station. When the plates were developed, he detected on several of them a tiny spot of light only about 52,000 miles from the planet's surface. Reasonably confident that he had found a tenth Saturnian moon, he promptly telegraphed news of his discovery to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the world's clearing house for celestial discoveries...
...with a final heave, the smaller Freeman stood up from his bottom position, reached back for Barry's leg, then gripped him around the mid-section, and turned...