Word: southwesterner
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...merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem to be hippies are really the national press," he told an audience at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos...
...Nazi, pfui! Nazi, pfui!" hissed the scores of West Germans who milled about in front of the state parliament building in Stuttgart, the capital of the big southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg. The object of the hisses paid no attention. Adolf von Thadden, 46, whose far-rightist party had just polled 10% of the vote in the Baden-Württemberg elections, strode into the building to talk with newsmen. "Despite the efforts of everyone to keep us out of the state parliament," he said, "the National Democrats have won their most beautiful victory...
...bonus for a mission brilliantly accomplished, NASA left it up to a panel of lunar experts. They decided to gamble on an exploratory shot to one of the moon's unknown upland regions: the rock-strewn ridges just north of the crater Tycho, in the moon's southwestern quadrant...
...Dame. Grambling's administrators find the school's emphasis on athletics hard to deny-especially since President Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, 63, doubles as the college baseball coach. Since World War II, Jones' teams have won 463 games and lost only 79 in the mostly Negro Southwestern Athletic Conference. But Grambling's big sport is football. It has 20 alumni on the pro rosters this year -more than any school except Notre Dame-including All-Pro Defensive End Willie Davis of the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs' defensive tackle, Junious ("Buck") Buchanan...
...considerable amount of gas passes through a normal, healthy digestive system. Dr. Ivan E. Danhof, of the Uni versity of Texas' Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, told the American Medical Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda...