Word: iowa
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Then the direct primary tide began to recede. Iowa, Vermont, Montana repealed their presidential preference laws; they had found that most of their citizens did not bother to vote in presidential primaries...
Poet Paul Engle of the University of Iowa agrees: "You can't treat the writing of poetry as if it were a course, say, in history, where the student can gather facts and attitudes and offer a paper which is essentially 'true.' ... A poem is not a study of a problem, but a strange melting together of sound in the ear, of conception in the mind, of impulse in the nervous system, of old actions mired in the memory. The most the teacher can do is to probe the body of the poem for lesions that corrupt...
...Iowa, No. 9, which last week upset third-ranked Illinois, 73-68, to put both teams in a tie (5-1 apiece) in Big Ten competition. Iowa Center Chuck Darling (6 ft. 8 in.) paced the winners with 26 points. Iowa's fieldhouse (capacity: 15,500) is a sellout for every conference game...
Final Proof. In Ames, Iowa, Student Don Young, who gave a street vendor $10 for a "genuine cashmere sweater," set fire to it in his backyard to see if he had bought one of the "explosive" variety, watched sadly while it smoldered to ashes in five minutes, decided it was genuine after...
Indiana: ST 676, JF 1141, HK 6138, DJ 7155; Iowa: 7-462, 5738416: Kentucky: 180242, 677225; Lousiana: 65527, 65690; Maine: 14379; Maryland: 620936, 30335, 474140, 118803: Michigan: 620936, 303335, 474140, 118803: Michigan: AD 3701, AM 6395, HK 6353: Missouri: C 22761, P 14054, 8 575: Minnesota: 568745; New Hampshire: CC 750; New Jersey...