Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alligators have fled their habitats and begun to multiply in city sewers. South American piranhas have checked out of private aquariums to infest Southern waterways. Pet snakes of many deadly varieties escape and terrorize whole neighborhoods. Argentine monk parakeets are fleeing the cage and filching the fruit from Midwestern orchards. Land snails slither out of home aquariums to gnaw the stucco outside. A fugitive kangaroo has hopped 250 miles through Illinois and zapped several cops. In every city in America, abandoned dogs rampage in wild packs through vacant lots and nocturnal streets. In New York City alone, 38,000 people...
Robert S. Kukla, a midwestern director of the NRA who flew into Boston for last year's hearinns on gun control, said in his testimony that "gun control constitutes a monumental hoax upon the American public. It is merely a diversion from concentration on the laws, regulations and procedures by which criminals should be incarcerated...
...love Hugh Sidey. He is a charming Midwestern guy who gives Americans the comforting reassurance that a cat can look at a king-and talk freely about it. Further, one gets the impression that the President of the moment (if he has sense) is reading Sidey too, and will jolly well shape up accordingly...
Quite a few photographs span the walls, while one set, by Bob Beusman, zig-zags across a table; Beusman calls it "Thirty-three Kodak Cuties Say Buy Me!", but there are only twenty-four. Bob Ely's pictures, in tempered grays, are slices from a Midwestern wasteland. He has fixed an eerie view of a technological desert: an empty drive-in-movie parking lot with a massive, mottled white screen leaning over it sprouts speakers on poles at gawky angles in the dust, and a jet plane hovers, hawk-like, in one corner...
...month commuting two hours each way. Now I'm 14 minutes door to door, and I live on a farm." Adds Mayor Porter, who in a neat reverse moved to Wichita from Southern California: "It's the kind of community that can be stimulating and still be Midwestern enough to be concerned about things like honesty and being nice to old folks...