Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer had come with a rush. On the biggest holiday weekend of the season, highways were blue with the vapor trails of traffic. Eastern beaches were alive with humanity; campers struggled up the slopes of the Rockies, the Smokies and the high Sierra. On Midwestern lakes, motorboats roared over the placid water, pulling skiers like dragonflies behind. The U.S. seemed relaxed, and in regard to the people's personal affairs, it was. But beneath the suntanned surface, when U.S. citizens thought of their country there was uneasiness and discontent...
...Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags (his pet phrase: "Trade'm away...
...probably inevitable that Dylan Thomas, like Scott Fitzgerald, would sooner or later become a mark for the novelist, and equally inevitable that the fiction of his life would be beggared by the facts. Clem Anderson is a thinly disguised Midwestern incarnation of Thomas, and as the novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem...
...section has been used only three times. During the Reconstruction era, Ulysses S. Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops to arrest defiant Klansmen. In 1895 Grover Cleveland invoked the section to crush a strike against the Pullman Co. that had halted Midwestern railroad traffic. Four years ago, President Eisenhower used 333 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. Attorney General Kennedy might also have relied, for legal authority, on the Federal Government's undisputed right to maintain interstate commerce. "The entire strength of the nation," wrote the Supreme Court...
...fall and cannot be used for drinking water. Moreover, a city's river water may be hard (because of calcium and magnesium carbonates), and housewives want it soft for washing; so the engineers soften it, often by replacing the calcium with sodium. One eminent cardiologist at a Midwestern hospital was puzzled when his heart-failure patients suddenly got worse and proved harder to treat. The hospital engineer, without telling the medical staff, had decided to make the laundry workers happy by softening the water with a sodium salt...