Word: dak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wood-burning stoves invited strangers in to share the warmth. Even the Dynasty crowd loosened up under the chill: at the exclusive annual Denver Debutante Ball, hardly an eyebrow was raised when the cellist put a down "jacket on over his tuxedo to play. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the A.A.A. was so swamped with pleas from stranded motorists that it was forced to take phones off the hook for three hours, only the third time it had done so in 15 years...
Traveling alone from Minneapolis to Rapid City, S. Dak., aboard a Republic Airlines Convair, Kennedy suddenly grew sick and dazed. Alarmed passengers near him reportedly summoned the flight attendant, who passed the word to the cockpit. The pilot radioed ahead to Rapid City to request that a paramedic and ambulance be on hand to meet the flight. When the plane landed, Kennedy was helped down the steps, but declined medical assistance...
Alan Darcy Smith Grand Forks, N. Dak...
Bowden and Knobe do not live in Miami or Chicago, Dallas or Los Angeles. Their improbable new financial capital: Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "We used to have such an image of cowboys and Indians," recalls Bowden, "when I would go to New York, the guys in the bar would give me a big war whoop. Now they say, 'Oh, you're from South Dakota, where you have good tax laws and where industry is moving in.' " Kind of stilted talk for bar chatter, perhaps, but apt. Sioux Falls (pop. 81,000) and the rest of South Dakota...
Thanks to the grant, Critchfield is devoting far more time than he normally would to a study of a new and different subject, the village of Fessenden, N. Dak. (pop. 600), which happens to be his birthplace. Says Critchfeld: "There was one big, invisible string attached to the MacArthur prize: it was something you had to live up to." Translation: not having the time or the money will not do as an excuse to avoid work...