Word: midways
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...MIDWAY through lunch at a fashionable Washington restaurant not long ago, a young man named Ralph Nader stopped suddenly and gazed down in disgust at his chef's salad. There, nestled among the lettuce leaves, lay a dead fly. Nader spun in his chair and jabbed both arms into the air to summon a waiter. Pointing accusingly at the intruder on his plate, he ordered: "Take it away!" The waiter apologized and rushed to produce a fresh salad, but Nader's anger only rose. While his luncheon companions watched the turmoil that had erupted around him, Nader launched into...
Harvard's freshman team, despite periods of poor passing, recorded nine straight points midway through the second half of their game and went on to defeat the Terriers' freshmen...
...freshmen turned several Harvard mistakes into a brief 67-66 margin midway through the second half. Guard Jean Wilkinson, with fire-up halfhandling against a full-court press and James Brown, who scored 12 points in the final seven minutes, sparked the Crimson outburst that built a 15-point lead...
Dartmouth's varsity basketball team exploded for 13 straight points midway through the second half Saturday night in Hanover against weak rebounding and poor shooting by the Crimson squad. Harvard never recovered from that onslaught and lost...
Harvard had been highly favored and was clearly superior to the Huskies in raw talent, but carelessness around its own net, and a frustrating inability to finish off rushes kept the Crimson victory in doubt until midway through the final period...