Word: midwesterner
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...feed grain dealers and elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...easily screen. When California's Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church went minister hunting recently, the pulpit committee received an avalanche of messages from out-of-state pastors-some offering to take a salary cut to move to an area with growth possibilities. Rural areas of the South or small Midwestern towns have to take potluck...
There are times when the fun is measured in yards of adhesive tape and pints of Merthiolate. "We're in pretty good shape this year," says one Midwestern coach. "A couple of broken toes, sprained ankles, plenty of cuts and bruises, a few lost teeth and a few broken ribs. That's all." Last season Minneapolis' South Side All-Stars lost 18 out of 40 men, two to broken legs, four to broken collarbones and twelve to "leg punctures"-caused by football cleats penetrating skin and muscle. But no matter. In nine seasons, Linebacker Walter ("Shorty") Sullivan...
...Cincinnati, by coincidence, the last of the native passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius), which once darkened Midwestern skies in flocks of billions, died...
...poor hero is that stock figure, the liberal martyr, and the locale that stock setting, a Midwestern college campus. He cannot even say that "Karl Marx was the most important man of the century" without being sacked. (He should have been fired for puerility, not subversion.) This humanist hails from New England, but his behavior is strictly late Roman. He weeps a lot, likes to fiddle with flower arrangements, takes barbiturates, has a penchant for sharing his quarters with other delicate young men. Occasionally he reproaches himself in lush metaphor. "You talk like a gelded pedagogue who has never felt...