Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
...total vote of nearly 3,000,000. Contrary to the Democratic trend in presidential voting, Ohio has two G.O.P. Senators and 16 of its 23 Congressmen are Republican. Although it lies entirely in the eastern time zone of the U.S., Ohio's character is primarily Midwestern and its political temper is more conservative than that of most industrial states. The most effective political instrument in the state is the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican organization, headed by Congressman-at-Large George Bender, Bob Taft's white-gloved bell ringer at the Chicago convention. Star performer of this outfit...
Next morning he was up for an 8:45 breakfast date. At 10 o'clock, he met some 400 Republicans-some friendly, some hostile-from seven Midwestern states for a prolonged question & answer session. Then he flew back to Denver long enough to help break camp. His personal campaign adviser, New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams, set out for Washington to open Ike's main headquarters near the Republican National Committee. Part of the staff took off for Manhattan with Ike for the Legion speech, and conferences with Eastern G.O.P. leaders...
Then the delegates climbed into their buses and drove to the convention hall. The roll call began. One by one, the voices spoke for the states of the Union: flat Midwestern twangs and Southern singsongs, quiet voices and hoarsely tense voices, defiant voices and triumphant voices, and voices that tried to cram a message into the simple business of voting. ("I vote for Eisenhower, the winner." "I proudly vote for Bob Taft." "Louisiana casts 13 hard-earned votes for Eisenhower...
...return of beer, but little of a lasting nature in the way of educational innovation. In 1934-35 the first faint sproutings of the National Scholarship plan went into effect with the arrival of a special group of scholars from what the CRIMSON referred to as "the midwestern regions." Until the plan was codified in 1936, these men were known as "Conant Scholars...