Word: hoosier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District of Columbia, Wisconsin's primary also became the country's biggest burying ground for the hopes of hopefuls. By favoring New York's Thomas Dewey, G.O.P. primary voters put Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg out of the nomination race in 1940, ended Hoosier Wendell Willkie's bid for a second nomination in 1944; their votes for Minnesota's Harold Stassen stopped the 1948 campaign to nominate General Douglas MacArthur; the vote for California's Earl Warren (locally viewed as Dwight Eisenhower's standin) slowed the 1952 bandwagon of Ohio...
...Cadaver Absens." All but 2,000 copies of Auxilium Latinum go to Latin students, and its main aim is to help them with their Latin. But Editor Warsley is especially proud of the 2,000 subscribers, such as the Hoosier farmer, who take the magazine because they like to read Latin, not because they have to. He tries to make each issue lively rather than pedantic. The jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est." Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."* But the fiction sometimes has its excitement, e.g., a recent story...