Word: midways
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...next goal, midway through the second period, astonished the five or six hundred spectators which ringed the field, not to mention the handful watching the game from the top of Harvard Stadium...
...four minutes out of Chicago's Midway Airport, something-Civil Aeronautics Board investigators are trying to discover what it was-went seriously wrong. Pilot James Sanders, 40, veered north from his southwest heading as he fought for control of the Connie. In the Chicago suburb of Clarendon Hills, homeowners heard a sputtering of engines overhead, then a glass-shattering roar; for a moment, some thought that there had been a nuclear explosion at the famed Argonne National Laboratory near by. But the noise was the death of Flight 529, as it crunched into the earth and skidded in flame...
...well aware," said President Kennedy midway through his solemn appeal for a stronger and more flexible U.S. military establishment, "that many American families will bear the burden of these requests; studies or careers will be interrupted; husbands and sons will be called away." Next day, in a message to Congress, the President was even more specific about who the active burden bearers will be: 250,000 men who, either for the first time or as recalled veterans, will be hustled into the uniforms of the U.S. armed forces...
...these days is rarer. This band is one of the best Kenton ever put together. The instrumentation is unique even for one of popular music's most tireless experimenters: no strings, generous contingents of trumpets, trombones, saxes, and an instrument of Kenton's own invention -the mellophonium, midway between trumpet and trombone. The result is as smooth as butter, whipped by Kenton's artfully lagging beat and caressing tone in ballads like Moonlight in Vermont...
...animal uncannily clever at navigation, will be fitted with larger transmitters in the hope of learning how the aquatic mammals set their course. Eventually, the Navy hopes, its little radios will signal defeat for an ancient enemy: the albatrosses (known as gooney birds) that nest by the thousands on Midway Island and make its runways dangerous for aircraft. Naval experts on bird migration suspect that gooney birds navigate to their breeding island by following the earth's magnetic field. If the secrets of the gooneys' system can be uncovered by radio, the Navy may be able to shoo...