Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the tornadoes came. In two days, 45 twisters tore through the Midwest, most of them following three distinct paths across portions of Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Capricious and unpredictable, they left 243 people dead, an estimated 5,000 injured, and countless others homeless, while the cost in property damage ran to more than $200 million...
Floods. President Johnson, along with Congressmen who represent the stricken areas, flew to the Midwest to see the damage for himself. He walked through the debris, examined the destruction, talked to survivors, assured them that the Government would help them get back on their feet again. When he left, his face reflected the same anguish that he had seen in the eyes of the tornado victims...
Half the increase of 1000 applications came from the far West, South, and the Midwest, and these three areas accounted for a surprising 29 per cent of the candidates. Applications from the Middle Atlantic states were down proportionally, and an unusual 10 per cent of the overall increase came from New England public schools...
...school has to be firmly rooted in its isolated location far from population centers and in the fierce pride of rural residents who want their own school and fear the "corrupting" influence-and higher taxes-of the town school districts. The one-room school is most numerous in such Midwest states as Nebraska, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, most hardy in the mountain regions of Montana, Colorado and Nevada...
...Green's won-lost record either. Dartmouth lost its last 12 games last year, opened its season with a 73-65 win over Vermont, and now has lost seven straight. But look at their schedule: the Indians played Boston College in December, and on a junket through the Midwest over the holidays lost to Ohio State, Dayton, and Kentucky. That sort of a schedule would scare Princeton...