Word: midpoints
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...intelligence failures. Were the warnings a ploy to unite the nation behind the White House? If not, then where was the anxiety coming from? And if the risks had truly escalated, why was the country still bathing in the glow of a "yellow" security alert--the midpoint of the five-level system established in March...
...midpoint the novel moves forward five years to the ragged British retreat from Dunkirk, in which Robbie is a weary infantryman, then to London, where Briony, now a nurse trainee, is struggling to find some remedy for the damage she has done. Her solution is not plain until the surprising final pages, when you grasp that if storytelling can be an occasion for sin, it can also be an act of contrition. It's McEwan's subtle game to show fiction working its worst kind of curse, then leading us unawares to give it our blessing...
...service, entitled “An Afternoon of Sermon and Song,” celebrated the midpoint of Black History Month. Dedicated to celebrating black history and culture, the month stems from “Negro History Week,” created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson ’12. Woodson was the second black to receive a doctorate from Harvard...
...Salient, sat straight and tall on one end of the table, while Gerard McGeary, the clean-cut Campus Outreach Director of the Harvard College Democrats, manned the other end. Sujean Lee—the goddess of the Undergraduate Council herself—sat at the table’s midpoint...
...scariest moment of the first period came at the midpoint when Ingram crashed head-first into the boards and was down on the ice for five minutes. But she was ruled ready to play before the end of the second period and assisted on Harvard’s fourth goal...