Word: midwestern
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...name, "Hoosier," but reliable sources in the metropolitan Indianapolis area say that the word originated on snowy nights in pioneer Indiana. Tired travelers wandering their way West would knock on the doors of isolated log cabins, and from the inside a friendly pioneer would ask in his nascent midwestern twang, "Who's there...
...Millis, 64, became the new university's first chancellor.) In his new post, Morse expects the school to continue expanding, but he believes that the school can best upgrade itself by "building from strengths we now have." Eventually, Morse hopes, those strengths can make Case Western Reserve a Midwestern rival to Caltech and M.I.T...
...faith in the moral superiority of the good old days. Throughout his career, he projected "images of longing"-from the barnyard and smalltown settings for many of Mickey Mouse's antics to the entrance of Disneyland, which compels visitors to pass through a turn-of-the-century Midwestern Main Street, "an idealized vision of Disney's boyhood environment...
...characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand tries to knead life back into a child who is "froze like a pump." A housewife sees beauty in the configurations of dead roaches. In the title story, an intricate prose poem about a small Midwestern town, windows are graves, asphalt crumbles, maples are decapitated to make way for electric wires ("voices in thin strips"), and the narrator sifts the ashes of a cooled love...
...Western may join the Hawaiian rush with flights not only from Western and Midwestern cities, but also from Anchorage, Alaska...