Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Idaho, swarms of them can be seen from miles away, and troubled farmers speak of "watching the grasshoppers coming over the mountains." The insects are imperiling $1.1 billion worth of alfalfa, grain, beans and potatoes in southern Idaho. In South Dakota, grasshoppers, army worms and corn borers have laid waste to thousands of acres of crops...
This summer's severe insect infestation has also struck North Dakota, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada. Heavy snows, followed by a cool, damp spring, led to what farm experts called "a real good hatch" of grasshoppers. Idaho had requested $10 million in federal funds to spray with Malathion, the chemical used to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. But experts question its use at this late stage. Says South Dakota Entomologist Ben Kantack: "If we spray now, we're just spraying for revenge...
...failing was evident back in South Dakota, where Humphrey grew up struggling to save the family pharmacy from the Depression. Despite an early conviction that he belonged in politics, he stayed on to help his father. And stayed. At 26, on the verge of nervous collapse, he finally left to study political science at the University of Minnesota, then to teach the subject at a local college. He put his reformist ideas into practice as an officer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but even then he was trimming his sails. The avowed leftist not only dined...
...Kremlin on behalf of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov. But this letter was addressed to President Ronald Reagan, and the "innocent man" in question was Leonard Peltier, 39, an American Indian imprisoned for life for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota...
Hart awoke Wednesday morning to discover belatedly that he could declare sa "spectacular, prodigious ? victory" in California. He also whipped Mondale, 51% to 39%, in South Dakota, where Jackson got just 5%. Hart had almost as large an edge in New Mexico, 46% to 36% over Mondale, with Jackson at 12%. In West Virginia, however, where unemployment runs at 16% and the coal-mining industry is depressed, Mondale won easily, 54% to Hart's 37% and Jackson...