Word: midwestern
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Pusey had never been a popular choice among the Beacon Hill-Upper East Side-Main Line members of the Harvard establishment. A scholarship student from a Midwestern high school, he was hardly in their tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgement. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President...
...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...
...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...