Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McHenry, Ill., a gentleman farmer reported that at least four had been stolen. A Monticello, Ill., landowner found that 20 had been taken from her property overnight. In Columbus, Ohio, citizens discovered that five were missing from a city park. The objects that are becoming increasingly attractive to Midwestern thieves are not the underworld's usual stock in trade. They are black walnut trees, which are disappearing at an alarming rate from the north-central forests of the U.S., where most of them grow. In many places where the best of the giant shade trees once stood, beautifying landscapes...
...farm lads - unforgivable! But worse is yet to come. A toothy American matron out lines a "Cultural Get Together": good Cornish men will be decked out in folk costume, and the Cornish hills will be turned into a "miniature Switzerland"- all for the pleasure of culture-avid, free-spending Midwestern tourists...
Like Russell, Cowens is an unorthodox lefthander who came late to basketball. Raised in Newport, Ky., he was a swimmer until his junior year in high school, which is probably why he was overlooked by most of the big Midwestern colleges and finally recruited through the mail by Florida State Coach Hugh Durham. "I sent a lot of postcards to high school coaches," explains Durham, "and Dave's coach at Newport Catholic answered. Cowens wasn't a great scorer, but he could rebound, and that's what we needed." That was also what Celtic President Red Auerbach...
...daily journeys down Athens Street I am confronted by armies of "street pedestrians". And please do not give me the crap that the sidewalks are in decrepit condition. My worn shock absorbers attest to the fact that the streets are just as bad. As an ungrammatical, but mundane, Midwestern farmer once said, "Pigs is pigs." Kevin Crane...
Most major employers immediately began uncertainly assessing their programs for improving job prospects for women and minority workers lest the Government step in. Notes one high Midwestern executive: "Our firm is vulnerable-hell, everyone...