Word: midwestern
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...despite his successes at Harvard, Mazzoleni never quite found his niche in Massachusetts, limited in his adjustment by the same Midwestern sensibility and style that often set him at odds with players and their parents. Mazzoleni also remained decidedly aloof from the campus, choosing to live with his wife and children in New Hampshire for financial reasons, even if it meant a long daily commute to Bright Hockey Center...
LIFE AND TIMES A Horatio Alger journey from the Midwestern heartland to the White House...
...sports, and I'm not sure they always come in that order," Reagan once said. His picture in the high school yearbook bore the caption "Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music." He was born on Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill., in that Midwestern heartland that is thought to be the seedbed of national heroes. But nothing about his origins augured any remarkable success. His father Jack, who had never reached high school, was a shoe salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home...
...despite his successes, Mazzoleni never quite found his niche in Massachusetts, limited in his adjustment by the same Midwestern sensibility and style that often set him at odds with players and their parents. Mazzoleni also remained decidedly aloof from the campus, choosing to live with his wife and children in New Hampshire, even if it meant a long daily commute to Bright Hockey Center...
...only might be failing to make America safer but might be doing the opposite. Republicans following Bush's shrinking numbers this month say it's not any one thing that has landed the President in trouble; it's a little bit of everything. "Drip, drip, drip," warned a Midwestern party official, "and pretty soon you are drowning...