Word: midpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calvin Murphy is the shortest player in the National Basketball Association-and one of the tallest in determination. When he was drafted by the San Diego Rockets last year, many of the pros predicted that he would be overshadowed like a sapling among sequoias. Now, at the midpoint of his rookie season, Murphy is developing into one of the best little big men in the league. In his last four games he has averaged 15 points while bedeviling his taller rivals with his darting speed and an incredible spring that, says Teammate Elvin Hayes, "allows him to play...
THREE INCHES is such a wretched height to be: Exactly halfway through the film. ( Elvis: That's the Way It Is. ) At midpoint. That is to say, at the very heart of the matter: Elvis up there singing, singing. Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high...
...Both Columbia and the Crimson committed frequent errors in the first few minutes. When Harvard hit its cold spell. the Lions inched ahead. 10-3, at the midpoint of the half...