Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.S.S.R. had some 25 subs, but Lenin's successor, Stalin, was dissatisfied with such an invisible fleet. In the mid-1930s, he reinstated the navy as an independent service and started building a huge surface fleet. The Germans captured the partly finished hulks when they swept into Russia in 1941. Thus the mission of defending the Red Army's coastal flanks fell to the Soviet navy's ragtag fleet. Most seagoing men would have chafed at such a coastline assignment, but a young captain named Sergei Gorshkov welcomed it as an opportunity...
...some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
...will find it difficult to benefit from Wallace's strength outside the South. Polls show that his support is insignificant in the East and is only slightly important in the Middle and Far West. Since hostility to the Administration is widespread among farmers, Republicans would do well in the Mid-west even if Wallace did not siphon off Democratic votes...
...Pickets line the vineyards and through loud-hailers plead to the scabs, also Mexicans. "Are you going to sell out your race?" Another stirring scene shows the migrants' demonstration march, behind union flags, to Sacramento. Curiously, though, there is not even a mention of the violence that occurred mid-strike, when the workers fired marbles with slingshots and the farmers retaliated by dusting them with insecticides...
Oldtime fans still talk with awe about the thundering Auto Unions that dominated the Grand Prix circuit in the late 1930s, and the howling "Silver Arrows" of Mercedes-Benz that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory after victory in the mid-1950s. But for a nation that once ruled the road, Germany has taken few top honors recently. Its last triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche...