Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important part of its crime index. Obviously, the shrinking value of the dollar changes the meaning of those figures; partly as a result, larceny has been the fastest-growing category on the crime index recently. Another example: for as long as anyone has kept track, youths from the mid-teens to early 20s have committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal age. The fact that there are proportionately more Negroes than whites in the age group 15 to 24 explains at least in small...
...mid-1930s, he used to pick up $5 a game, playing first base for the Watkins, Minn., Independents in the Great Soo League. There, Eugene McCarthy was known as a fancy-Dan fielder and batted close to .350. Since he joined the Senators, he has often starred for the Donkeys in the annual game between congressional Democrats and Republicans, and he still gets wound up for hours discussing baseball and his all-time favorite performers, among them Gil Hodges and Ted Williams. Friends report that McCarthy is not so much interested in the outcome of a contest...
Both St. Louis and Detroit turned pennant races into jokes by mid-season. Since the first of August, however, the Cardinals have hardly looked like Champions, losing four more games than they...
Like most of the old school of Harvard coaches, John Yovicsin tends to the unemotional approach toward competition. He dresses conservatively, rarely if ever ventures beyond either 40 yard line from his mid-field command post, and almost never smiles...
...most important result was that Southerners learned that President Eisenhower was less than eager to jump into their affairs. These things should be left to the states, Ike said; and the states were glad to have them. It wasn't until the notorious Little Rock showdown of the mid fifties that federal force was used at all, and for the rest of Eisenhower's administration it was used only reluctantly...