Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midwestern parts of the country are almost entirely frozen. Below zero temperatures were reported yesterday from Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and North Dakota. Frost was reported in most of the southern states, and temperatures dipped to 35 on the southern tip of Florida...
...official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer, the three generations of fugitive Cechs rolled over the U.S. border into Linz. Next stop: Earlham, Iowa (pop. 771), the home of Bedrich's daughter, Mrs. Ronald K. Brown...
Thanatopsis. In Waverly, Iowa, the H. H. Cleveland Funeral Service advertised: THOSE WE HAVE SERVED WILL TESTIFY AS TO OUR ABILITY...
Late in the last quarter, with Iowa leading again, 14 to 7, Coach Leahy saw his national championship slipping away. Once more Notre Dame had the ball deep in Iowa territory, with the clock running out. This time, two Notre Dame linemen feigned injury. When the clock started up again, there was just time for three quick passes into the end zone, the last for another Guglielmi-Shannon touchdown. Iowa's prize: the upset of the week. Notre Dame's: a slightly tarnished...
Composer Cowell says his folklike melodies come from his childhood in San Francisco, where his Irish-born father and Iowa-born mother brought him up on folk songs. He turned to unusual piano techniques, he thinks, because he had no composition teacher to tell him they were wrong. Later, he gravitated naturally to teaching because composing was expensive. Even now, when most of his music is commissioned, he has to earn his keep teaching: it costs hundreds of dollars to turn out a symphony score and parts...