Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying to "the worst flight ever" some 20 years ago. He still flies, because "I gotta. But when it gets choppy, I say, 'Oh, my God,' and hold to whoever is sitting nearest." Such people get little satisfaction from...
Ohio was one of the Midwest states that promised, mid-way through the evening, to give Humphrey a surprise victory. Early this morning, however, Nixon pulled gradually away from Humphrey, widening his margin to over 100,000 votes. At the same time, Democratic Senatorial hopeful John Gilligan was narrowly beaten by Attorney General William Saxbe...
Ironically, perhaps, it is just those regions of the country, the South, the Midwest, and the Rocky Mountain states, which have given Johnson his strongest support on Vietnam that stand to lose the most. Ten years from now the Montana rancher (who's voting for Wallace because he wants Hanoi H-bombed) will watch his daughter die in child-birth as he is flying her, in his little Cessna, to the hospital in Butte, several hundred miles away. In his grief, he will rail because there was no doctor closer, but he'll probably never make the connection...
They had much else in common. Born in the 1860s and early 1870s, brought up in the Midwest (Turner in Wisconsin, Beard in Indiana, Parrington in Kansas), all of them came of age at a time when the balance of power and influence was shifting from the effete East to the still raw and resentful Midwest. The financial panic of 1893 was in the making. The Populist movement was galvanizing Westerners and farm folk everywhere into a struggle against big money and big-city interests...
Rosemary's Baby. Wallace was doing well on his own. In a swing through the East and Midwest last week-"dangerous territory," in the words of Aide Dick Smith-he continued to draw big crowds. Some 12,000 heard him speak in Flint, Mich. The only disappointment was Chicago, where an eight-block motorcade through the Loop drew only 50,000; Nixon, by contrast, pulled at least 250,000 a month earlier. Almost everywhere there were hecklers, brandishing such signs as "If You Liked Hitler, You'll Love Wallace" and "Wallace Is Rosemary's Baby...