Word: midwesterner
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...brother from out west was played by Hank Holmes, his wife by Fred Mueller. Hank was both convincing and delightful, while Fred provided a marvelous caricature of a loud, if not rip-roaring, midwestern wife. Pare Lorentz capably handled a none too sparkling part as Ivy's poor lover Miguelo. The same was true of John Stimpson as Miguelo's friend, Manuel. The third of the Spanish trio, Mona, was given a sultry, slippery, outrageously funny rendition by Don Rabuzzi...
Victory tonight will not be easily achieved, however. Yale has an excellent 15-7 overall mark, which includes four losses to superior Midwestern competition over Christmas vacation. Its only league losses were an early one to Dartmouth and one at Princeton...
Geographically, Midwestern roommates are best. They are least conspicuous. Northeasterners are grubby, Westerners are loud, Southerners are two-faced. One must, however, avoid the facile generalization when considering the Roommate...
...work (but operating quietly behind the scenes to help it work), and 2) championing such pro-labor proposals as Taft-Hartley revisions, expanded minimum-wage coverage, improved unemployment compensation. His fellow Republicans listen with increased respect since, after diligent Mitchell campaigning, the G.O.P. made heavy inroads in Eastern and Midwestern industrial areas...
...some of the facts contradicted the independents' argument. To begin with, the biggest surpluses were in the eastern and midwestern oil districts that export very little oil. District Three, however, including Louisiana and Texas-the biggest exporters-showed a storage drop from 121.3 million bbls. in September to 99.7 million in December. Moreover, since only about a third of total stocks are what is called "readily dispatchable" crude (the rest is filling the pipelines or the bottoms of tanks), the 21.6 million bbl. storage decline between September and December was highly significant. It meant that over half the readily...