Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth opened the scoring mid-way through the second half when the Crimson was caught squirting in the scrum. The long penalty kick proved good, and for a time Harvard appeared to be fighting a losing battle against the clock...
...worried forecasts of a copper shortage began appearing soon after 37,000 workers went on strike in mid-July at companies producing 90% of the nation's domestic supply. Just before Labor Day, no less an authority than Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge gloomily predicted that it would be only "three to five weeks until we reach rock bottom of our supply." As the walkout dragged through its 14th week, the shortage remained as elusive as a settlement...
...metal spring for a tail, are so well known that they set all sorts of precedents for the neo-Dadaists of the 1960s. But in this category, too, there are delightful examples of Picasso's wit never seen before, including a little girl caught skipping rope in mid-jump, and a pipe-tube, stiffly starched nurse pushing a baby in a pram...
Before he squeaked into office three years ago, Wilson promised the country economic growth to finance both more socialism and more private affluence. He has delivered only the former: welfare spending has soared by 45%. The continuing troubles of the pound led him to change panaceas in mid-crisis. The switch to classic austerity was supposed to give Britain time to rid itself of such long entrenched weaknesses as industrial inefficiency, featherbedding unions, drowsy management and overstaffed business. Instead, complain businessmen, government tinkering has proved so inept as to create new economic distortions. When Royal Dutch/Shell decided to build...
Hitherto, Golding has preferred to present his characters almost as abstractions. Lord of the Flies was a laboratory demonstration of original sin taking place on a rather unreal island; The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin dealt with a mid-Atlantic castaway who seems to choose life with pain over easeful death, but is in fact already dead and in purgatory; The Spire set a drama of spirit and flesh in a remote time. The Pyramid represents no retreat from these tours de force, but Golding's command of fiction is now such that he can dress his tragedians...