Word: midways
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...PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the Swiss parliament. He stands erect at the podium with all of his bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep...
Last year's Cinderella team looked much like this year's version in the early part of the season. The difference, though, was that midway through last season, everything came together, both on defense and offense...
Neither team was able to score in the first overtime, but the Elis took a short-lived lead when they scored midway through the second. Yale's grip on victory appeared to tighten when a Crimson penalty with 55 seconds remaining gave the Elis the ball and left Harvard short-handed...
...considerable evacuation armada in the South China Sea off Viet Nam. In various ports along the Vietnamese coast, there are nine amphibious vessels, which were called in earlier to evacuate Vietnamese refugees to the south. Four aircraft carriers are in the area: the Hancock, the Coral Sea and the Midway are in the South China Sea; the Enterprise is at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Last week 2,200 Marines were deployed to the four carriers and their escort ships...
...Celtics, idle for eight days since the end of the regular season, came alive after a sluggish start and went in front to stay on three consecutive baskets by Havlicek midway through the opening period...