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Word: midwestern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson faced neither of the other participating teams last season. LaSalle recently moved into the Midwestern Athletic Conference, while Fordham is the defending champion from the Patriot League...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: W. Hoops to Host Harvard Invitational | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

...With the Midwestern states, people get mixed up as to which is where and what we grow. People always mix up Iowa, Idaho and Ohio," says Streyffeler, who is from Iowa. "One woman once thought my friend was from 'Ohiowa...

Author: By Janet C. Chang, | Title: Like Race, Regionalism Can Be Cause for Bias | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...published by Time Inc., ranked the area as the nation's best business spot earlier this year. Rounding out the Top 10: Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Seattle, Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Albuquerque, N.M. At the bottom: small Midwestern cities like Jackson, Mich., home of that state's largest prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES . . . THE BEST, THE WORST, AND ANDY'S FAVORITE | 8/17/1994 | See Source »

Presidents sometimes get better Supreme Court Justices than they deserve. After two mediocre nominees were rejected by the Senate in 1969-70, Richard Nixon finally chose Harry Blackmun, a prim Midwestern Republican the President knew could be confirmed and one he hoped would be a predictable lapdog to Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger had been Blackmun's grade-school classmate in St. Paul, Minnesota, and had recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old No. 3 Goes Home | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...worn out from overuse. The movie does not even attempt to reupholster the cliches. How many more times can Japanese characters be depicted as fanatical samurais or as bonsai-loving mystics before the laughs run out? Or how about the lumbering rookie who hails from the cultural vacuum of Midwestern farmland? And the proctology jokes...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: `Major' Strikeout | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

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