Word: mid-western
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What Monro saw in the forms Glimp submitted he can't really explain; it must have been more than Glimp's being rural and mid-Western, though that was something Harvard wanted. For whatever reason, he put the folder aside and read it again--and again. Then, with some misgivings, he recommended that the College accept the man who would 20 years later succeed him as its Dean...
...younger international set when John F. Kennedy, son of longtime winter residents, spent a couple of Christmas vacations 'there as President. Now younger socialites seek the more informal social life of Barbados, Hobe Sound, Nassau or Acapulco. Palm Beach is primarily a playground for older Eastern and Mid-western families. Notable among them are Vanderbilts, Phippses, Dodges, Guests and Sanfords. The top social leaders are Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Mrs. Post, and Mar-A-Lago is one of the liveliest places in town...
Hero meets villain in the small Mid-western town where Furber holds forth as the local yack-in-the-pulpit. "Both of Omensetter's hands reached for his hand, enclosing it like a worm in a fruit." Obsessed with envy, Furber spreads lies about Omensetter and even tries to persuade the townspeople that he has committed murder. In the end the reverend repents his persecution, but too late to preserve his reason, which drowns in a loud orange effluvium of emotion...
...objection with a gracious bow to their "learned friend" across the way. The contrasts, vividly symbolic of Africa in the 1960s, were underlined by the subject of the proceedings: a federal investigation of the Owegbe cult, accused of using juju (magic) to try to overthrow the government of the Mid-Western province, smallest of Nigeria's four regions...
Fire, Burn. Even before formation of the Mid-Western province in 1963, Owegbe was active as a kind of Ku Klux Klan to protect backward Beni tribesmen against the political inroads of their more aggressive, better educated neighbors, the Yorubas and the Ibos. When the pushy Ibos captured the post of provincial prime minister in the traditional home of the Benis-Benin City-Owegbe leaders were humiliated and ordered a rampage of terror, filling Nigerian newspapers with stories of Owegbe beatings and intimidations...