Word: midwesternisms
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...others, the younger kids from small upstate and Midwestern towns, and the "lifers," the 30 and 40-year-old professional sailors for whom the Navy means beer and tattoos and the swaggering, adventurous, illusory life of men of the sea-the others continued where they left off last port. Wherever it was they were, whatever it was they...
...this first-person account of gropeshrink, Jane Howard presents herself frankly as a rather too prim Midwestern miss who became a busy New York bachelor-girl reporter and found herself starved for what the movement promised to provide: emotional closeness. Assigned by LIFE to do a piece on Esalen Institute, a sort of Harvard of the emotions, she got so involved in the movement that she decided to do the whole sensitivity circuit. The result is Please Touch...
...lessening of inflation. No one has more riding on an inflationary slowdown than Nixon himself. As a political mathematician, he need only look at economics statistics to realize that few groups have been hit harder by the recession than the usually secure middle class of the West and Midwestern industrial centers that helped him to victory...
...written a tale of witchcraft, then set it in the least likely locale in the world for witches' sabbaths: a Midwestern suburb. Twelve Ravens is that most difficult of storytellers' tricks, on-again, off-again realism. Night falls, and the mamas and papas of the bored middle class race to the town's hill like nude nymphs and satyrs to worship their resident Mephistopheles, Gypsy, the neighborhood handyman...
...research on chemical disinfectants, he found that the crop sprays used by large Midwestern land owners caused cancer in chickens. It turns out that about half of the chickens we eat have cancer in their bodies, or maybe it's a third in Massachusetts. Cancerous chicken tissue is supposed to cause brain lesions in dogs and cats...