Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Extension. The inspiration for Penn Life came originally from the late Roy Markus, a pharmacist, who in 1939 decided that disability income insurance could be sold profitably door-to-door to small businessmen. He built up a chain of agencies in the Midwest and on the Eastern Seaboard. Beyer joined Markus at 18, and by 23 was earning $340,000 a year as manager of the Minneapolis office...
...Midwest, Cleveland State knocked defending co-champion Michigan State out of the tourney with a 3-0 victory...
Waker Grant and Richie Szaro are Harvard halfbacks of notoriety that the most prestigious coach in the Midwest remarked about, assorting that they could have both been All-Americans. I am not in disagreement with the posture of football at Harvard College. I am only concerned with the tragedy of Harvard football, the incredible misuse of extremely capable talent and total lack of inspiration on the part of the coach. This last comment brings to mind last year's Harvard-Yale game. Yoviesin was a quitter. He gave up on his team, and yet in the post-game interview...
...complaint of sameness among the commentators also gains a certain superficial support from their biographies. Many are from the Midwest, most broke into journalism on small or middle-sized newspapers, most are Democrats or Independents. But TV's top commentators are in fact remarkably different in their approaches to life and their jobs...
...Muzzle. White House aides who had been deployed in the Midwest brought back glowing reports of the favorable reaction to Agnew's assaults on the peaceniks. Letters and telegrams flowed into the vice-presidential office at a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of his statements. The Administration views Agnew as a valuable weapon in its continuing efforts to keep the South safe from George Wallace. Nixon's own speeches, of course, are muted in comparison with Agnew's, and if the contrast makes the President appear the cool-headed moderate-well, that's political...