Word: midwesternisms
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...nail down the donors. Operating on the rough rule that 90% of most drive proceeds will come from 10% of the donors, schools work on their wealthiest friends first. Early announcements of big gifts often entice other affluent donors to follow suit, although the approach has its hazards. One Midwestern multimillionaire kept complaining when a college stalled its announcement of his $100,000 gift; school officers could not tell him that they had expected $10 million and feared his example would induce every potential $100,000 donor to scale down his own gift...
...doctor of juridical science (S.J.D.). Moreover, there are actually two kinds of J.D. One is the automatic label that some schools now give to all graduates; the other goes only to those who graduate at the top of their classes. This has been the longtime practice at several leading Midwestern schools. The question is, how to tell the difference? Obviously by the quality of the graduate's training-in which case the argument is right back where it started...
...chopping-up and brightening around the edges still hasn't altered much of Voice of America's bedrock mediocrity. VOA [Dec. 9] still sounds like some bureaucrat's idea of everyman's radio entertainment. I've had enough of interviews with Midwestern chicken farmers and the supercilious, you're-not-too-bright enunciation American announcers have been instructed to use. I'll take the BBC's thoroughly professional and human sound. Besides, their reception is a whole lot clearer...
Before he can say Baden-Powell, Scoutmaster MacMurray becomes a leading citizen of the small town that Producer Disney constructed long ago on the back lot of his studio-that typical Midwestern town where the California sun is so hot that the lawns need a fresh coat of green paint every day. He gets a job in the general store and marries the prettiest girl in town (Vera Miles). Unfortunately, Fred and Vera don't have children-possibly because Fred goes trotting off on so many overnight hikes-but they do perform a numbing number of good deeds...
...prolific cooperation began three years ago when Evans, a veteran Washington reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, approached Novak, a congressional reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and talked him into giving the column a try. Evans, who was close to the New Frontier, and Novak, a Midwestern Republican, hit it off from the start. Their work habits differ-Evans usually meets a source over breakfast; Novak prefers to make his contacts at lunch-but they pool their information. They take turns writing the column, and they edit each other. "We use each other as a sounding board," says...