Word: midwesternisms
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...other semifinal contest, U.C.L.A. will murder Wichita. The Shockers won a thoroughly lacklustre midwestern regional tournament, and are no match for the U.C.L.A. team, which is ranked second in the nation...
Ebert said that although there is no immediate plan for increasing enrollment at the Medical School, it is probably possible to raise the number of students who come to Harvard after two years at another school. Harvard currently accepts students from Dartmouth and a few midwestern schools which have only two-year programs...
...live "somewhere in upper Manhattan," and their phone number is unlisted. All of Lew's letters are screened by his coach, and sportswriters are required to submit questions in writing-a procedure that has led some to suggest nastily that Donahue is really John Alden in disguise. One Midwestern university hinted that Donahue could have the head coach's job if he promised to deliver Alcindor...
...forced to admit that, even if William Scranton had been nominated at San Francisco, he would not have run much better than Goldwater. Right-wing zealots and Midwestern conservatives, foiled for the seventh straight time in as many national conventions, would not have done much for the young Governor from Hotchkiss and Yale. It is conceivable that the Republican candidate might have won fewer electoral votes than Governor George Wallace could have...
...plus neighborhood churches some Sunday, and feel the Mad. Ave. tempo melt away. New York is the town where a barber, when you ask for a shave, will tell you that you need a haircut; where a million people dwell within a 3-block radius--smaller than a midwestern village, yet containing all commodities (drugstore, bar, movie, etc.) necessary for life. Some get the jitters, or get lost, one block beyond that circumscribed universe. Others never leave...