21.   They dreamed of buying a cottage in a quiet Midwestern town.

22.   They planned on simple dinners together and of buying a cottage in a quiet midwestern town.

23.   Three drag queens are on their way to a national contest in Los Angeles when their car breaks down and strands them in a desolate Midwestern town.

24.   Three New York drag queens, on their way to a Hollywood beauty contest, get stalled in a tiny, back-roads Midwestern town.

25.   Today, Crawford resembles a midwestern town dropped onto the plains, although the atmosphere is decidedly Western.

26.   United by the common thread of Timothy McVeigh and the death penalty, they migrated Monday to this quiet Midwestern town.

27.   The accession of the former Warsaw Pact members into NATO was taking place at a ceremony Friday at the Harry S. Truman Library in this midwestern U.S. town.

28.   The fact that the story takes place in a small Midwestern town, not unlike the town that I grew up in in Missouri, was also appealing.