Word: midwesternisms
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...this the legion of drunken misfits who roam the highways, maintaining their licenses through "friends" at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and sure enough, these cats start killing off a lot of kids who have never even terrorized a small Midwestern town. So they get all shook when they get hit with a big suit. Their first reaction? Outlaw motorcycles...
...unsettling number of precedents, both in fiction and in fact. The imaginary parallels are grisly?and suggestive?enough: from The Sniper, a 1952 movie about a youth who shoots blondes, to The Open Square, a 1962 novel by Ford Clarke, whose protagonist climbs a tower on a Midwestern campus and begins picking people off. (So far as police know, Whitman had neither seen the movie nor read the book.) Even the fiction, however, pales before the fact. There was Scripture-reading Howard Unruh's 20-minute orgy that brought death to 13 people in Camden, N.J., in 1949, and bandy...
...provides a public defender, I will let everyone go free." Statistically, the judges thought that only 2% of the cases tried were "very difficult" for juries to handle; only 9% of the verdicts seemed to them "without merit." The most lenient juries for serious crimes are found in small, Midwestern towns; the most harsh in medium-sized Eastern cities...
...Iowa, which has an excellent program in the language, pay not a penny more intuition-and get full credit at Carroll for work done. This free transfer of students will be the most immediately visible result of the newly formed Central States College Association-an educational combine of twelve Midwestern colleges that have agreed to pool their resources by coordinating classes, programs and faculty appointments...
...least 800 such arrangements to share the cost and spread the wealth in the U.S., with 200 more in the planning stage. "We can do things together that we can't do alone," says President Donald Kleckner of Elmhurst College, near Chicago, which is joining seven other small Midwestern schools next year to form the Mississippi Valley Association. "Many colleges are deciding that they can gain more by cooperation than by competition...