Word: midwestern
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Perhaps you were trying a new trend in speech description. May I add one or two-the pancake twang of Mr. Truman (flat and Midwestern), the lettuce phrases of General Eisenhower (crisp), and the doughnut charges of Senator McCarthy (full of holes...
...least, that she is possibly being forced, either at gun point or by threat of life, to read the prepared script. The agonizing speed with which she delivers it indicates she has had very little time, if any, to rehearse the script. Her pronunciation is very Midwestern...
...nearly two weeks, 4,000 members of the Switchmen's Union of North America had tied up four major midwestern and western railroads and crippled a fifth. Thousands of cattle ready for the feed lots were stranded in the grasslands. Wheat was waiting to be shipped; in stretches of Kansas, served only by the Rock Island, wheat overflowed elevators and was piled on the ground...
...just had five boys," sighed an official of one small Midwestern girls' school, "everyone would want to come here." Without the boys, more than one women's college in the Midwest is finding it harder than ever to keep enrollments up: too many girls want to go to coed colleges...
Republicans and Democrats alike, the governors were impressed. "He swept them all," one Republican governor said expansively (though several Midwestern Republicans said they were not swept). Carl Humelsine's detailed exposition of the careful procedures of State's loyalty screening impressed them most Afterward, outspoken Jim Duff told Humelsine: "I want you to know that I am for you and that I will support you in your defense against charges that have been made against your department even if it costs me the election this fall...