Word: midways
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...heartless and methodical act of destruction. The Lions gave Harvard just enough rope--a 12-8 lead midway through the first half--and then hung the Crimson with a patient but effective offense...
...ship-clearing operation had begun smoothly enough. For two days Israeli soldiers idly watched from the east bank while Egyptian tugs probed south of the midway port of Ismailia to chart an exit channel past sunken obstacles (scuttled ships, downed jets). Then, breaking a tacit understanding with Israel that they would clear only the southern half of the canal, the Egyptians suddenly announced that they also wanted to look over the canal's northern half. The Israelis immediately suspected an Egyptian maneuver aimed not only at reopening the canal's entire 107-mile length but perhaps at clearing...
Suffering from poor timing as a result of exam period inactivity, the Crimson and B.C. traded mistakes for much of the frame. Harvard managed another tally at the midway point on Terry Driscoll's slap shot. Retaliating when the Yardling's were shorthanded, B.C. scored past substitute goalie Ted Rumsey...
R.P.I., which rose at one point to second by upsetting Harvard and B.U. back-to-back, is on the skids. The Engineers lost to Division II leader Middlebury, then last weekend to Colgate, 5-1. in a game that referee Giles Threadgold called midway through the second period. (A free-for-all exploded in that game at Troy, and neither side had enough players to continue once Threadgold finished meting out penalties...
Perhaps that's what made him try show biz. He had won money in the Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests that were the craze at local vaudeville houses. Midway in his junior year at East High School, he dropped out to become a dancer at Cleveland's Bandbox Theater. His partners in subsequent years included a pair of Siamese twins and a neighborhood girl, Mildred Rosenquist. Years later, Hope said that "we would make seven or eight bucks, and I would split it with her." Mildred, now a California housewife, challenges that claim to this day. "Bob told...