Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ricks pointed out the careful way Dylan chooses his words. William Zanzinger twirls the cane around his "diamond ring finger" here Dylan uses a noun as an adjective a device that may be rejected by the Iowa Poetry Workshop" but that makes for evocative poetry. The rhymes in the second verse, about William Zanzinger, are all masculine that is, the rhymed syllables an stressed In the third verse which recounts the life of Hattie Carroll, the accents are feminine kitchen-children; table-level...
...Ross and lona Woodside last week were listening not only to the alarums of Gerald Ford on Indochina, but also to the first whispers of a tardy spring. It was clear that spring was more welcome. It will soon green the patch of Iowa prairie where they have lived and farmed for 64 years, bring the wild flowers to their slope of black soil with a quiet excitement that will dwarf Ford's perplexing insistence on more war in Southeast Asia...
...William Scherle, 52, Assistant Deputy Administrator for programs of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service at $36,000. Defeated after eight years as an Iowa Representative, Scherle keeps track of fuel needs of farmers in his new post and advises them on tax rebates and refunds. "I have 27 years of experience as a grain and livestock farmer," he explains. "The job sought...
...high jumper faces competition from Greg Joy of the University of Texas, El Paso, who has cleared 7 ft. 4 in., and Bill Knoedel of Iowa, who has made...
...from Wichita, Kansas, as is his roommate Don Nicholson, this year's secretary general of the Harvard National Model United Nations. In a suite adjoining Wee and Nicholson's, lives Clark Pellett, from Atlantic, Iowa, who was secretary-general of last year's Harvard Model United Nations along with Jarius DeWalt, who is from a small town in New York. Twice every year they and some other Harvard students run a mock United Nations conference for high school and college students from across the country, arranging and presiding over four days of conferences and social events that are intended...