Word: mid
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Fact Finding. The trip will start in the mid-Pacific, where, on July 24, Nixon plans to watch the splashdown of Apollo 11 from the pickup carrier, U.S.S. Hornet. He will then visit the Philippines, Indonesia (which no U.S. President has ever visited), Thailand, India and Pakistan, from which he will fly to Bucharest. There he will talk with Rumanian Chief of State Nicolae Ceausescu, at the latter's invitation...
...that no one should ever answer in his entire life, but it is one that we have all been forced to answer, and that is our problem. To say who you are and why you do things is to imply that a person is something that can be stopped mid-flight, scooped down and examined, calculated about. The person is then a human being who is not being and not becoming, but a person who rather is and was--static, holding still and saying, "I am this," "I took over that building because...
Accordingly, by the mid-1970s the Navy and Air Force could be capable of launching a total of more than 8,000 warheads, compared with 2,700 presently...
...Cubism and de Stijl; Pollock, the shy Westerner, studied under Thomas Hart Benton, and was influenced by Mexico's David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. They all talked-and talked. Critic Thomas Hess observes that "a long, chaotic, brilliant, funny conversation about art began in the mid-1930s and continued for more than 20 years...
Bleeding in the Markets. Worried about tight money and the economy's future, investors continued to unload stocks last week. The Dow Jones industrial average declined another 19 points to 876. Since it reached the year's high of 969 in mid-May, the market has dropped like a stone...