Word: cheechakos
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...many Alaskans, all this maneuvering is a bit too clever. Palin's jockeying doesn't just clash with her previous image as a good-government reformer. It strikes some here almost as a matter of state sovereignty. There was grumbling when the McCain campaign brought in a high-powered cheechako (that's an outsider), former federal terrorism prosecutor Ed O'Callaghan, to dictate the governor's strategy and deal with the media. Spokeswoman Stapleton says O'Callaghan is in Alaska because she and Van Flein need the extra help, and that the media have made this a national issue...
...Gold Rush days, Alaska's Indians referred to intruders from the U.S. as "cheechakos"-a corruption of the word Chicago. Last week Larry Fanning, 53, a latter-day cheechako who arrived in Alaska nine months ago after an illustrious twelve years in the competitive world of Windy City journalism, became the owner of the state's only morning newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News (circ...
These popular two ballads by themselves made Service rich. In successive books-Ballads of a Cheechako, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Lyrics of a Low Brow -he paid repeated respects to his own talents as a versifier and an avid public's eagerness to read manly far northern rhymes such as these...
...cheechako (newcomer), Mike Stepovich knows his country, puts in a solid day's work in his office in Juneau's grey stone Federal Building, deals with the 47 appointive territorial boards and commissions, oversees emergency work projects, orders examination of fiscal programs that will help prove Alaska's ability to stand alone, confers with Washington and territorial officials, studies his mail, e.g., "We the undersigned students have been recently examined by Dr. Brownlee and 60 having been found with defective teeth, do humbly petition our Governor, Mike Stepovich, to send us a dentist...
...look over the 41-year-old cheechako (tenderfoot) who was to take his place...