Word: midways
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...alike in their tedium, and no one likes them, unless it is Mother. Each year the editors of these publications rack their brains for something "new." Inevitably, much the same thing issues forth. This year the novelty, according to the editors, is what is called "an editorial approach midway between the reportorial and the historical." "Yearbook writers," they say, "found themselves going beyond the dry facts to set down on paper the atmosphere of Harvard ... the Yearbook has presumed for itself a journalistic role rarely associated with college annual, that of interpreter as well as recorder." If the Yearbook...
...budget ruckus, Dwight Eisenhower's authority had ebbed low on Capitol Hill.* But among Ike's advisers unhappy knowledge drew divided reaction. Ignore it, said some. Counter it, suggested others, by delivering a frontal assault on the economy-harried Congress. Eventually Ike decided to move midway between suggestions, deliver a three-pronged plea: to the people by television, to the leaders of Congress in person, to a segment of his own disoriented party by telephone...
...noticed a Fullmer weakness: the champion was dropping his hands after taking a body blow. Before the fourth, Gainford advised Robinson to throw a right to the heart, and then follow with a left hook to the chin. Robinson nodded. He saw no chance in the next round, but midway through the fifth, Robinson drove a right into Fullmer's body. In Pavlovian style, the champion lowered his hands, and for a split second uncovered his chin. It hung there, as naked and as obvious as the Rock of Gibraltar. Robinson planted his dancer's feet and swung...
...Jumbos brought the score to 5 to 3 at halftime with a goal midway through the second period. Pille, Mallone, and Jim Gale all registered for the Crimson in the next period, however, while the varsity defense held off the Tufts attackers, and the outcome was never in doubt there-after...
...Crimson made its only scoring drive of the afternoon midway through the second period when Mike Shaw and captain Mac Hyde, on an assist from Jim Herscot, penetrated the rigid Tiger defense to register the team's only two tallies...