Word: mid-western
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Jailbird, By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...
...barrier between me and the world beyond the road's shoulder as I set out from Detroit heading west on Interstate 80 was the presence of man. In the Great Lakes urban belt--the Mid-western equivalent of the Boston to Washington drive--there is no "real world" to disturb the traveller. Even further west, until the Great Plains start their ascent to the Rockies, the world is unequivocally man's--safe and predictable. There is not a mile of road, from Illinois to Nebraska, down into Colorado, that passes through unfenced land. Along every mile you can see farm...
...hockey team will swing west for its annual holiday bout with top mid-western squads. The Crimson skaters sport a 1-3 overall and ECAC record entering the recess and have yet to win an Ivy League contest--their worst start since the 1964-65 season...
...through most of it, Brando remains cool, almost embarassed. He looks as if he might be a Republican businessman from a small mid-western city--a dark streak there of vicious potential belying his affable, almost naive manner...
...Weissbecker concedes that the game of food-price forecasting can often be "imprecise" and that the effects of the mid-Western drought and Hurricane Carmen may well be "very significant...