Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people and have their own clubs and organizations. On the right hand side is Horti-cultural Hall where we have our flower shows. There on the right you see a typical supermarket and a donut store. Donuts are the local rage." Then the Sunglassed Voice told ancedotes about some Midwestern ladies who discovered the local rage and spent their entire vacation taking tours and eating donuts...
Freshman track coach Ed Stowell explains that the first thing Harvard does when it gets a Midwestern shot and discus man is to start him throwing the 35-1b. weight and the hammer--almost exclusively Eastern events...
...factor that President Morse does not point out is that the making of Case Western Reserve [May 3] into a Midwestern rival of Caltech and M.I.T. is being done at the expense of the liberal arts. That he plans to upgrade the university by "building from strengths we now have" only emphasizes the fact that the humanities play a secondary role at this university. We believe that the situation at C.W.R.U. exemplifies the general trend in this country to train rather than educate students...
...name, "Hoosier," but reliable sources in the metropolitan Indianapolis area say that the word originated on snowy nights in pioneer Indiana. Tired travelers wandering their way West would knock on the doors of isolated log cabins, and from the inside a friendly pioneer would ask in his nascent midwestern twang, "Who's there...
...characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand tries to knead life back into a child who is "froze like a pump." A housewife sees beauty in the configurations of dead roaches. In the title story, an intricate prose poem about a small Midwestern town, windows are graves, asphalt crumbles, maples are decapitated to make way for electric wires ("voices in thin strips"), and the narrator sifts the ashes of a cooled love...