Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are times when the fun is measured in yards of adhesive tape and pints of Merthiolate. "We're in pretty good shape this year," says one Midwestern coach. "A couple of broken toes, sprained ankles, plenty of cuts and bruises, a few lost teeth and a few broken ribs. That's all." Last season Minneapolis' South Side All-Stars lost 18 out of 40 men, two to broken legs, four to broken collarbones and twelve to "leg punctures"-caused by football cleats penetrating skin and muscle. But no matter. In nine seasons, Linebacker Walter ("Shorty") Sullivan...
...Cincinnati, by coincidence, the last of the native passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius), which once darkened Midwestern skies in flocks of billions, died...
...poor hero is that stock figure, the liberal martyr, and the locale that stock setting, a Midwestern college campus. He cannot even say that "Karl Marx was the most important man of the century" without being sacked. (He should have been fired for puerility, not subversion.) This humanist hails from New England, but his behavior is strictly late Roman. He weeps a lot, likes to fiddle with flower arrangements, takes barbiturates, has a penchant for sharing his quarters with other delicate young men. Occasionally he reproaches himself in lush metaphor. "You talk like a gelded pedagogue who has never felt...
...something here-genus unclear-that should bring happiness to its accountants and joy to the mornings of women readers everywhere. Fans of Novelist Smith may at first be put off to find that the Brooklyn of A Tree Grows in and Maggie-Now has been replaced by a Midwestern college campus, but the fact is that mythical Brooklyn has merely been transplanted-with its air of nostalgia, its saintly cast of characters and its turn-the-crank emotions comfortably intact. With the momentum of a balky suburban train, Joy tells of the domestic crises suffered by a young law student...
Bent on clearing a road for the treaty in the Senate, Kennedy tried to get two influential Midwestern Republicans, Iowa's Hickenlooper and Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, to join the U.S. delegation to Moscow. But both Dirksen and Hickenlooper decided to. stay home. The Republican Senators Kennedy tapped instead were two fellow New Englanders, Aiken and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who are high-ranking members of important Senate committees but who wield little influence among Midwestern Republicans. To make Dirksen's absence seem less conspicuous, Kennedy decided to leave behind the Democratic opposite number, Majority Leader...