Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities became prime areas of concern for the military, and in mid-January two separate incidents heightened their fears. In Barcelona, students tried to hurl the university's rector from his office window...
...Good Lord!" scribbled Alan Eddy in his diary. "Why the heck did I do this?" At the time, Eddy, a systems analyst from Scarsdale, N.Y., was alone in mid-Pacific aboard his 30-ft. ketch Apogee, heaving through heavy seas on a 39,000-mile voyage around the world...
...pubs of mid-19th century England that wandering singers first came to be called buskers.* They were then best known for their obscene songs, but they gained respectability as they moved to the sidewalks and brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing...
...MID-NOVEMBER just such a show opened at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. The show, Dear World, had all the earmarks of a hit: a hot star (Angela Lansbury); a composer-lyricist who had never written for a flop (Jerry Herman, whose previous efforts included Hello Dolly and Mame); and a successful librettist team (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, authors of Mame and Inherit the Wind). Dear World's five-week tryout engagement here was a virtual sellout before the opening night...
...dogs are many and friendly, and they are all over Antioch--in the classrooms, the dorms, at meetings, with the President and at the mid-night films. But their light-hearted presence sometimes seems like no more than a camouflage and foil for the tension on the campus where they make their home...