Word: dak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events of Hubert Humphrey's life that drew him toward politics and Washington occurred in 1936 when some Department of Agriculture experts showed up at Doland, S. Dak., to plant scraggly pine trees that were to be part of a shelter belt from Canada to the Gulf, designed to slow down the remorseless prairie wind. As Hubert used to recall, the trees quickly died in the 100° heat but the act showed "that somebody back there cared...
...they crossed Wyoming, they encountered dangerous thunderstorms. Said Maxie: "I said to Kris, 'We could land and do this another day.' " The reply: "We'd better go for it." For six hours, they drifted in the center of the storms. Finally, over Rapid City, S. Dak., they broke into the clear, propelled eastward by winds that drove them up to 90 m.p.h. Then, as they crossed the Great Lakes, Maxie fell ill from lack of oxygen and too many cookies. Bundled in two sleeping bags against the subzero cold, Maxie switched to pure oxygen and recovered...
...this 1932 classic, Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux medicine man who witnessed the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, S. Dak., collaborated with white Author John G. Neihardt...
...depressed, postembargo U.S. markets. American prices are now about 12% below their January levels. These ploys are driving up the cost of grain for the Soviets, but they are not stopping the flow of food. Says Richard Goldberg, owner of a grain and feed elevator in Fargo, N. Dak.: "All you can say about the grain embargo is that it is forcing the Soviets to pay one hell of a price...
Ervin J. Halvorson Sioux Falls, S. Dak...