Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration of men from the North is running far above the usual estimates of 6,000 to 6,500 a month-perhaps as much as twice that number. From February to mid-April, U.S. intelligence believes some 44,000 fresh soldiers have been pumped down the trail toward South Viet...
...Revolution, a prime example, was followed by farmer uprisings over debts and taxes-the Shay and Whisky rebellions. In the mid-1800s, the nativist Know-Nothings fought rising Irish political power by killing Roman Catholics, burning churches and ultimately controlling 48% of the House of Representatives. In 1863, the Irish, fearing that Negroes would take their jobs while they were drafted into the Civil War, conducted a frightful race riot in New York City that killed an estimated 2,000 people and injured 8,000. The Civil War killed 500,000 soldiers-the equivalent of 3,000,000 in today...
...this is probably a result of overexpectation, apprehension about the unknown, and the pervasive awareness of doing something illegal. This last aspect is one reason that photographed pot parties often look furtive and clandestine. "The first time I ever smoked pot, I got upset, frightened and sick," says a mid-thirtyish Chicago housewife...
...soon it was clear that the Man from La Mancha theme will be like Auld Lange Syne by mid-season. The only merriment for Boston rooters came in the ninth inning...
Even if the South Africans do so, Swiss bankers last week insisted that they can challenge London's long supremacy in the market. Their customers siphoned off some $2 billion worth of gold from London between the mid-November devaluation of the pound and the mid-March closing of the gold pool, when the U.S. and six other countries stopped selling gold to the private market. That huge supply, equal to about two years' South African output, must remain the key source of bullion for free-gold trading for some time...