Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of this is news to folks in Midwestern and Western states, where the wild fungus, once derided as a "toadstool," is hunted with passion. Last week the season for morels, considered by many connoisseurs to be the tastiest of all, was coming to its peak in Mesick, Mich. (pop. 373), which calls itself "the Mushroom Capital" and counts among its landmarks the Mushroom Cap Motel and the Mush-Room Bar; despite heavy rain, a 30-minute parade swept Miss Mesick Mushroom and her court to fungoid fame...
...months ago, Jack's future seemed boundless. The son of a Midwestern minister, he was bright enough to have won a scholarship to an Ivy League school and to have graduated with a degree in Russian. A natural athlete, Jack had played both college football and basketball and, at 31, maintained his 6-ft. 2-in., 190-lb. frame in perfect trim. Possessed of a ringing baritone, he was poised for a career in opera. Then, early last year, the glands in his neck became swollen and remained so for months on end. By summer, two small dark spots...
...first two documentaries link acid rains in the Northeast to Midwestern industrial emissions, and the third discussion the threats of nuclear...
DIED. John Cowles, 84, scion of a newspaper dynasty who left his father's fiefdom in Des Moines to buy a Minneapolis afternoon paper in 1935, eventually swallowed three competitors, then reached out to create a Midwestern journalistic empire while making his Minneapolis morning flagship, the Tribune, into one of the country's most respected newspapers; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis. After he retired in 1968, the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. began a long decline, as a result of which Cowles' son John Jr. was ousted from its leadership four weeks...
...dynamics of politics in Boston are different from those of its Midwestern counterpart. The more personal nature of politics in this relatively small metropolis means that each candidate's character may play a greater role in the election than the simple Black-white polarity that characterized Washington's primary victory...