Word: iowan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fling vacation "into your own personal trout farm." But the Beachin' Times, a color supplement that appeared in 55 campus newspapers in the U.S., has been wiped out by indignant collegians. At the University of Wisconsin, students even threatened to boycott the Milwaukee company's brew, while the Daily Iowan's editorial column slammed Miller for "propaganda that is so blatantly offensive to a wide variety of people." Miller responded to the uproar by canceling the advertisement's future appearances. Said company spokeswoman Susan Henderson: "We blew...
Still, neither candidate has been able to attract widespread farm support. Bush once dismissed an Iowan farmer's queries about agricultural policy by snapping, "I'm running for president, not secretary of agriculture...
...Iowan Democrats also did their part to trim the nomination race down to a more reasonable size. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.), and Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.) came out as frontrunners. With a commendable fourth-place showing, Rev. Jesse Jackson proved once and for all that his appeal was not limited to Blacks. Meanwhile, the caucus-goers effectively eliminated two men whose presence only obscured the Democratic field, former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt and former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart. Thanks to the Iowans, the Democratic party can now sport a few candidates who have received...
...more than 200,000. Crowding is almost nonexistent, and so the attendant evils of crime and hopelessness are minimal. The core of the population also has some link to those people who first halted on the tallgrass prairie and sank their plows. Writes Author John Madson, an eloquent native Iowan: "Grassland of such magnitude was wholly alien to the western European mind. It diminished men's works and revealed them to a vast and critical sky, and forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and changed them forever...
Freedman took no official stand on pro-divestment and anti-CIA activism on the lowa campus, an editor of The Daily Iowan told The Crimson earlier this year. He has received praise for backing innovative educational programs, including the development of an intensive language training program for teachers...