Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...research on chemical disinfectants, he found that the crop sprays used by large Midwestern land owners caused cancer in chickens. It turns out that about half of the chickens we eat have cancer in their bodies, or maybe it's a third in Massachusetts. Cancerous chicken tissue is supposed to cause brain lesions in dogs and cats...
...Nixon battle plan for the congressional elections that Agnew will be carrying with him. How he executes the plan may well determine the tone of the campaign. The swing is clearly aimed at altering the makeup of the Senate and will take Agnew to 13 Western, Midwestern and border states, where he is most effective...
...Midwestern farmers ordinarily welcome summer rains because they hasten the ripening of lucrative crops. This season's rainfall has been unusually heavy, accompanied by high humidity and winds from the hurricane-laden skies of the South. Last week farmers discovered to their dismay that the combination threatened calamity to the cornbelt states of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, endangering the nation's biggest cash crop...
...film takes an unbelievable story and makes it-strangely believable. Four midwestern kids head for Los Angeles for the conventional reasons-they find nearly instantaneous fame and fortune, but at the price of orgies, perversions, drug addiction and other box-office attractions. Though stunned by a culture they are not ready to understand ("I'd like to strap you on," is repeated in three conversations, each time to the same dumbfounded guy.) somehow things work...
...others, the younger kids from small upstate and Midwestern towns, and the "lifers," the 30 and 40-year-old professional sailors for whom the Navy means beer and tattoos and the swaggering, adventurous, illusory life of men of the sea-the others continued where they left off last port. Wherever it was they were, whatever it was they...