Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tend to look down on the preppy stereotype, however," he added. "After all, the Princeton clubs really have a fraternity atmosphere, which is a midwestern institution and something that's natural...
...request for equal time comes from Emma Wallop, a small-town Midwestern widow and retired nurse who wakes one day to discover that her former boarder, Randy Rivers, has published a bestselling novel entitled Don't Look Now, Medusa. A tin-plated Spoon River Anthology, it has as its main character a small-town Midwestern landlady, like Emma herself, given to dislocated clichés and malapropisms...
...drive countless times-but this time, at night, it proved to be a totally different trip. The familiar sights along the way-the "biggest tire in the world," the River Rouge Ford plant (the biggest automobile assembly line in the world)-were all lit up against a terrifyingly black Midwestern sky, gassy, electrified. They rendered everything, myself included, impotent...
...Although the article on "Animal Polluters" [Sept. 14] was informative and well written, it cast a very poor image of Marengo, Ill. As a native of this Midwestern Utopia, may I inform you that Marengo is famous not for manure control but rather as the home of one of the nation's two mousetrap factories, a large apiary and a thriving mushroom farm. In short, Marengo is more than...
...pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses. But it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East. When Richard Nixon dubbed them the "crazies" of the Arab world during a recent briefing for Midwestern newspapermen, it was one of those rare assessments with which both Israeli and Arab leaders could agree...