Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation for sterilization was rare indeed, except under state auspices for sterilization of the insane. It has now become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around Los Angeles the increase has been...
Possible presidential ambitions aside, Dewey certainly has no desire to lose his position of leadership in the Republican Party. As a bulwark of liberal Republicanism, he cannot relish the prospect of party control passing to his long-time antagonists, the midwestern Republicans...
President Pusey yesterday defended the University's policy on so-called "Fifth Amendment Communists" before an audience of 1,000 Midwestern business executives and declared it "extremely unlikely" that there are now any Communists on the Faculty...
...face, ballyhooed as an "offbeat, low-pressure Wally Cox-Will Rogers type," was crewcut George Gobel (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Straining at a deadpan, Midwestern delivery ("Wai, I'll be a dirty bird"), Gobel was better at dialogue than monologue. The show's two sketches were unpretentious, underplayed and very funny...
...Summer Long (adapted by Robert Anderson from a novel by Donald Wetzel) tells, on the surface, at least, a very different story from Playwright Anderson's Tea and Sympathy (the longest-run dramatic play currently on Broadway). It chronicles a summer in a Midwestern household which proves a particularly disturbing summer for the family's twelve-year-old son. Young Willie at times achieves a new awareness of some of the facts (and fictions) of life, and at other times has awareness thrust upon...