Word: midwestern
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...they are often unaware of its less obvious left-wing root in the midwestern radicalism of the old Populist and Progressive Parties . . . The normal, middle-road, educated American that you meet in literary-academic circles assumes automatically that McCarthy is a fascist, out to found the usual storm-troop dictatorship as described in the sociology texts based on European history ... I view McCarthyism as so dangerously seductive to America, and such a very real threat to our liberties, because it is so different from fascism and from analogies with Europe...
...secession from the N.C.A.A., which has been brewing for several years, reached the point of probability last week when the midwestern league and the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference took directly opposing stands on the television controversy...
Gregorio takes the wheel and Hemingway lets himself down to the deck and sits down. His voice has an ordinary sound, but high-pitched for the big frame that produces it. For all his years away from his rootland, he speaks with an unmistakable Midwestern twang. Absentmindedly he rubs a star-shaped scar near his right foot, one of the scars left by the mortar shell which gravely wounded him at Fossalta, Italy, in 1918 when he was a volunteer ambulance driver. Nick Adams, hero of many of Hemingway's short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place...
...King of the Khyber Rifles (TIME, Jan. 11), the hero (Rock Hudson) is a British officer, who in this case has a Midwestern twang to his speech. He affects to defect to the enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...
...thoroughfares have unparalleled sweep and grandeur, but-save for Central Park-they lack sufficient stopping places for eye and feet, the attractive squares found everywhere in Paris. Finally, Manhattan can boast no artist thought great around the world (in all the U.S. there is only one of such stature: midwestern Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...