Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tijuana Brass, weekend football scores and lengthy newscasts. The diversion was especially welcome on the return trip, which turned out to be the least eventful part of the journey. Two more live telecasts were presented from the spacecraft, and more star navigation checks were made, but the last two mid-course corrections were canceled: Apollo 8 was dead on target...
...They successfully separated their spacecraft from the third-stage S-4B rocket, moved 50 feet ahead of it, then turned to inspect it. After sending the S-4B off into orbit around the sun, Apollo was to continue coasting toward the moon, firing its engine briefly only if a mid-course correction was needed to put the craft precisely on its path...
With millions of Americans already victimized by the epidemic, the American Red Cross declared a "disaster situation." Federal health authorities, warning that the worst is yet to come, predicted that the peak should be reached around New Year's Day or mid-January. Before the virus has run its course, perhaps 30 million citizens will have been abed with coughs, chills, fever, and general aches and pains...
...them to almost any other music: the beat. Artists of the past sometimes judged Bach to be nothing more than jigging monotony-"a sublime sewing machine," Colette called him-but the young know better. "There is a bridge between Bach's ideas of rhythm and those of the mid-20th century," says Pianist Glenn Gould, "and it has been created by popular music and jazz." The Swingle Singers, an eight-member Paris-based group led by American Ward Swingle, popularized Bach scores by performing them to the accompaniment of a jazz rhythm section, singing the themes in wordless scat...
...Mid-way through the second period the icemen finally broke the B.C. defense. After taking five stiches for a cut caused by a flying puck in the first period, Bob Havern spearheaded the Crimson drive with an assist from Don Olson. Leif Rosenberg, one of the team's hopefuls who was forced by the B.C. defense to carry with assists by Tom Paul and Bill Holmes. B.C. slammed in a goal at 15:42; but Harvard reasserted itself at 15:51 with a goal by Holmes assisted by Rosenberg...