Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose sperm will be used for artificially inseminating women who cannot otherwise become pregnant, and would-be fathers whose semen will be consolidated in an attempt to raise their sperm count to a level high enough to cause pregnancy. And there are also a few simple eccentrics-like the Midwestern grandfather who has stored his seed against the possibility that his only son might prove infertile and thus not carry on the family line...
...replace Clifford Hardin as Secretary of Agriculture, won Senate confirmation, 51-44. At first it looked as though Butz might be beaten. Butz was vulnerable because he seemed more sympathetic to big agribusiness than to the smaller farmers. Still, enough Democrats went along to confirm him-including, oddly, such Midwestern liberals as Indiana's Birch Bayh and Michigan's Philip Hart. Why? Maybe the Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with an Agriculture Secretary unpopular with a farm constituency that could be crucial to the election. But the real...
...year of the staples: old-fashioned toys that are not encumbered with frills and are likely to endure. "It is no longer possible to sell parents toys that will hold the child's attention for a very brief time," says the sales manager of a big Midwestern toy company. "Any toy that is to be popular must draw the child back to it again and again...
...crisp November afternoon, Kent State University resembles any other thriving Midwestern campus. Hirsute young men and their long-haired girl friends, identically dressed in blue jeans and peacoats, stroll hand in hand across a snow-covered reach of lawn. Their path is interrupted by bulldozed mud trails, wire fences and spools of cable, the debris of new campus construction...
...bitter either about his relative lack of recognition. Partly, he believes, the trouble is that the Midwestern novelist, unlike the Southern or the urban novelist, cannot count on any factional audience. "Today," he adds, "except for those writers who have a wide response, there is no longer a predictable public for the novel. The old audience is fragmented. Even though much of the current writing is brilliant, it lacks a coherent response...