Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dillinger thought of himself as a modern Jesse James, and he never tired of saying that he merely recovered from the bankers what they had stolen from the people-an assertion that a surprising number of the people believed. The members of Dillinger's and other Midwestern gangs were almost entirely native-born Americans, some of them descendants of Ozarks outlaws like the James brothers. They scorned the Jewish and Italian gangs of New York and Chicago, run by cold-eyed executives like Dutch Schultz and Al Capone, who preferred not to shoot anyone themselves...
...These Midwestern schools have announced a "pioneer program" of sharing educational wealth: they plan to allow their 43,000 graduate students to move freely from one institution to another...
...alliance of Midwestern universities dedicated to beating one another's brains out on the gridiron. Like the Ivy League, which football also launched, it may soon be known more for minds than for muscles. Last week the Big Ten schools, joined by an ex-member, the University of Chicago, agreed to link their graduate facilities in the world's biggest "academic common market...
...churning as never before. While railroads and airlines make more noise fighting one another, the inland waterways' share of U.S. freight traffic has climbed from 3% to almost 10% in the last 15 years. This past year, for the first time in U.S. history, river barges carried more Midwestern grain to export ports than the railroads...
...World, NBC's story of four boys who live on a houseboat in a Midwestern college town, has also been marked for liquidation in January...