Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mid-August the NFWA formally merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a small allied union composed primarily of Filipino fieldworkers, and the two joined...
...some extent, of course, L.BJ. has fallen victim to the mid-term doldrums that descend on most Presidents. He has also, doubtless, been hurt by a variety of troubles-the Viet Nam war, rising prices, big-city Negro riots-that are only partially of his making, if at all. He suffers nonetheless from a unique and painful handicap that Washington observers have come to call "the personality problem...
...first used the Red Guard label in 1927 to designate the peasant irregulars who fought alongside his troops in such battles as the victorious assault on the walled city of Tingchow. Later, Red Guards accompanied Mao and his men on the Long March in the mid-1930s to the safety of the caves of Yenan...
Ghostly Organizer. The reincarnation of the Guards in their present form came in mid-June. A pilot group was organized at Tsinghua University's middle school in Peking. The organizer and initial commander of the Guards was Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, and he loosed his youthful minions in public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms...
...from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But to thousands of Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local Mexican-Americans soon saw religious significance in the "crying tree"; they began dropping by to touch it, rub its mysterious fluid on their bodies, and even to drink...