Word: hoosier
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 6--"Ain't God good to Indiana? Other spots may look as fair, but they lack the soothin' somethin' in a Hoosier sky and air where the ripples on the river kinda chuckle as they flow--ain't God good to Indiana? Ain't he, fellers? Ain't he that...
...read a bronze plaque in a corner of the early Victorian Hoosier state house in Indianapolis. And if there is an issue in this primary campaign after Johnson's March 31st decision to withdraw and deescalate, it is Hoosierism...
Dispute rages among both press and campaign staff members about the origin of the name, "Hoosier," but reliable sources in the metropolitan Indianapolis area say that the word originated on snowy nights in pioneer Indiana. Tired travelers wandering their way West would knock on the doors of isolated log cabins, and from the inside a friendly pioneer would ask in his nascent midwestern twang, "Who's there...
Kennedy, unlike McCarthy, has chosen to ignore Hoosierism and appeal to indiana voters' national consciousness. He has attempted during his Indiana campaign to state national issues in Hoosier terms...
...Hoosier Governor Roger D. Branigin's provincial "Indiana-for-Hoosiers" campaign seems also to be faltering; the Governor cancelled all remaining campaign dates this afternoon without explanation. Many of Branigin's powerful Democratic machine workers are defecting to the Kennedy camp...