Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Correspondent John Stacks began covering the campaign of 1980 in September 1979. Despite that lead time, he frets, "I may not be able to travel with all the candidates before they cease to be candidates." He caught one with little time to spare, Republican Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota. Says Stacks: "I managed to finish reporting a story on his hopeless and misguided presidential candidacy only two weeks before he dropped out." If some candidates are misguided, observes Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, others are astonishingly absentminded. Gate escorted Republican Candidate John Anderson to a TIME editors' lunch...
...hostages held by militants at the U.S. embassy in Tehran sank into increasing isolation following the departure of the American newsmen. John Thomas, a publicity-hungry American Indian militant from South Dakota, claimed to have met with one of the hostages during his visit to Tehran, but gave few helpful details of the encounter. No other outsider has seen them since a group of U.S. clergymen visited the embassy at Christmas...
Besides being one of our largest domestic news bureaus, in terms of the population and territory it covers (from North Dakota and Minnesota south to Oklahoma), the Midwest bureau is also the oldest. It was established in 1929 and counts as the first cover it reported a 1930 piece on Mobster Al Capone. Nowadays the big stories that occupy the bureau can range from projects involving long-term reporting, like our November 1978 cover on "The New U.S. Farmer" to this week's fast-breaking examination of "Grain As a Weapon." Such high-pressure assignments can be tough...
...challenges of nature. Last week, while farmers outside Fargo, N. Dak., fed their livestock and waited to plant their spring wheat, temperatures fell to 18° below zero, and the steady icy winds were a bone-numbing 15 m.p.h. Cracked U.S. Congressman Mark Andrews, who is a North Dakota farmer: "Up here we say that 40 below zero keeps the riffraff...
...ALWAYS HAPPENS this way. Your best friend from North Dakota, whom you haven't seen in eight months, knocking on your door the night before your Chem 20 exam. Your home team, after botching every playoff game in recent memory, finalling making it to the Super Bowl. Your hardest exam is the next morning. You come down with your period the morning of your first exam. You gain ten pounds...