Word: midwesternisms
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...Glasgow youth with a Scottish burr sat in an Oxford college common room, impressing English listeners with his knowledge of U.S. politics. He even cited presidential election statistics in key Midwestern districts. "Where did you study in the States?" he was asked. "I've not been to the States," he replied. "But I've been to Salzburg...
...started out by quoting a letter from a Midwestern woman who wanted to know why her son was fighting in Viet Nam. Johnson's answer: "Three times in my lifetime-in two world wars and in Korea-Americans have gone to far lands to fight for freedom. We have learned at a terrible and a brutal cost that retreat does not bring safety, and weakness does not bring peace. And it is this lesson that has brought us to Viet...
...turned out, what the Senators needed was not a boost from Beelzebub but a whiff of good clean Midwestern air. Before the start of the 1961 season, they moved to the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and changed their name to the Twins. In four seasons, they have twice finished in the first division, a feat they had accomplished only 20 times in 60 years in Washington. And never have they been hotter than now. They have won nine of their last twelve games, including three out of four with those damn and now doomed Yankees, and at week...
...equations of life, and cracks tragic jokes about it. The stuff of Let Me Count the Ways would be funny if De Vries' characters didn't bleed. Is it comedy or tragedy, for instance, when Stanley Waltz, the Polack piano mover in this slice of Midwestern life, ruptures himself trying to haul his piano-sized paramour into the bedroom? Is it really hilarious that Stanley spends night after night in his own yard watching his own wife undress, and must then justify this irrational behavior to the police? And when another misadventure exposes him to public humiliation, what...
Anxious to follow the westward flow of industry and begin tapping the booming Chicago market, Jones & Laughlin, the nation's sixth largest steel producer, started looking over possible Midwestern sites last summer. Its conditions: plentiful water, a youthful labor supply in the area, easy rail access and cheap land. With the aid of Fantus Co., the international plant-location experts, they considered half a dozen possible sites, finally settled on Hennepin as the one best meeting the requirements...