Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once in a blue moon is North Dakota's timetable for electing a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 74 years of statehood it has happened only in 1958, when now-Senator Quentin Burdick pulled a stunning upset...
...lead the expected rout, the G.O.P. picked-over two more conservative possibles-Moderate Mark Andrews, 38, a Fargo farmer and Republican national committeeman. The Democrats had Dr. John Hove, 47, English professor at North Dakota State University and a down-the-line Kennedy...
...this proved mighty worrisome to North Dakota Republicans who feared Scott might siphon off enough G.O.P. votes to give the race to Democrat Hove. Appealing to "alarmed Republicans," the party organization mounted a massive get-out-the-vote drive, brought in moderate Senator Milton Young, who labeled Scott a "far-right liberal...
...which seemed to indicate that, at least in North Dakota, the radical right produces more sound than power-generating steam...
...that birds are scarce. South Dakota alone has more than 14 million pheasants, or something like 70 for every hunter. They just make monkeys out of men with guns. A pheasant will flush 50 yds. out of range, lie frozen while the hunter blunders past inches away, or run maddeningly on ahead, never flying, never presenting a shot. And when a bird is killed, the hunter may never find it among the tangles and hedgerows. In South Dakota last week, longtime Pro Quarterback Bobby Layne and seven friends managed to hit 31 in an afternoon without...