Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormous majorities. But some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...
Striding into an Anchorage bank last summer, an Alaskan state trooper pulled out his pistol and seized $6,000. The money belonged to the local bar association, and the trooper was there on orders of the Alaska Supreme Court, which has stirred up a raging feud by its effort to put Alaska's 211 lawyers under the court's tight control. So determined is the court that it has even tried to disband the state bar association...
Arend, 61, a veteran of 30 years in Alaskan law, had no opponent on the ballot; all he needed was a simple majority of the total vote to win a ten-year term. Instead, both Republican and Democratic lawyers blasted Arend across the state, decried the court's jury bond rule, its 3% share in child-support payments and its upholding of the recent conviction of two Seward schoolteachers for the "immoral conduct" of trying to oust the school board and superintendent. The lawyers not only captivated schoolteachers, but they won over enough other Alaskan voters to kick Justice...
...rifles that can be fitted out to serve efficiently as magazine-fed light machine guns or heavy-volume belt-fed machine guns, the Defense Department is testing two such weapons systems under battlefield conditions, and trained marines make the transformations in less than 1 min. while wearing clumsy Alaskan mittens...
...poles, shouting noises of guttural rage, bobbing, feinting, taking clever steps backward and occasionally falling by accident into the water. You can try on a Panamanian straw hat, test a Nicaraguan wooden spear, and talk to a stranger in California while you stare into his eyes on television-telephone. Alaskan Chilkat Indians will tell you how to make totem poles: start by floating the log in a lake until it steadies, then split off the upper third, since that is where the most knots...