Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State (pop: 2,500,000) with impressive ease...
...Family of Man." The nation he sang was the bustling, brawling Amer ica of his Midwestern youth, a land of laborers, slaughterhouses and prairies...
...Wisconsin mood and climate and the skillful and sympathetic drawing of Willard Carroll, an assistant postmaster, one of the few "good" men in contemporary fiction. But then Lucy, Carroll's granddaughter, takes over in a truly venomous fashion, and the book strives embarrassingly to become a Midwestern Madame Bovary. It is bewildering that a writer as gifted as Roth could devote so much effort to so trivial a heroine; the high promise of his 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus is still unfulfilled...
Cutting Back on Books. Midwestern cities are also finding it harder than ever to get financial support for public schools at the polls. Last November, Cincinnati voters refused to accept a 50% increase in their real estate taxes to cover school operating costs that have risen by more than $2,000,000 a year. Six months ago, Minneapolis voters defeated a proposed $16 million increase in their real estate taxes to cover a boost in the budget. As a result, the board of education was forced to cut back expenditures for new books, educational films, teachers' sabbaticals...
...fewer than 9,000 people went aloft as passengers on scheduled airlines (compared with 109 million last year). Between accepting medals, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis to every state in the Union, pleading the future of aviation in a high, reedy Midwestern voice. Though he turned down million-dollar contracts for movies and cigarette endorsements, he accepted offers from Pan Am and Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (later TWA), to become a consultant. Stock options made him a millionaire almost overnight. The Minnesota farm boy and barnstorming pilot moved more and more in the ambiance of the very rich...