Word: midwesterner
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...came from Iowa and had confidence in his midwestern idea of America. He couldn’t believe we could be involved in an unjust war,” Bethell says. “Pusey got locked into defending the war, even as the Faculty and his deans around him opposed...
...mostly turned up in high-profile places. Even though everyone seems to feel like they're living in the crosshairs of the terrorists' scopes, I must break the bad news: Almost none of us matter to the terrorists. We don't count. (This even applies to the governors of Midwestern states who have begun keeping their itineraries secret out of fear of terrorist assaults...
Some have feared that the paper’s independent midwestern spirit (it was started in Wisconsin) would die when its founders moved it to New York, signed film deals and reportedly discussed TV deals with...
...widespread effects: A poll of 1,200 adults by the Pew Research Center indicates that as many as 80 percent of adult women are feeling "depressed" following last Tuesday?s attacks. Pollsters also found that city dwellers along both coasts report a greater incidence of sleeplessness than their Midwestern peers...
...this is made apparent through our encounters with the Lambert family. We first meet Enid and Alfred performing the slow and futile rituals of married life after retirement. Alfred, reticent and principled, is waging a stubborn battle against Parkinson’s disease. His struggle frustrates Enid, a Midwestern mother of three grown children striving to maintain a fantasy of proud normalcy and prosperity in her own life and in the lives of her children. The Lambert children are not exactly cooperating with that fantasy. Chip is a former professor who was fired for having an affair with a student...