Word: dakota
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...self-made success - or colossal failure, depending on your indulgence for strange movies - Oscar Micheaux was born in Metropolis, Ill., in 1884. After various menial jobs he followed Horace Greeley's advice, went West and became a South Dakota homesteader. He lived among whites and, it is said, took a white woman as his lover. In his late 20s he began writing novels; to finance their printing, he went door-to-door, raising funds from his white neighbors. His first self-published, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Homesteader," appeared in 1913. When black film outfits sprang up after "The Birth...
Those sunny, shirt-sleeve days in January may have won global warming a few fans, but last winter was the dryest on record in New Jersey, Maryland and South Dakota. And precipitation dropped significantly below average in 27 other states, leading to drought conditions across 20% of the contiguous U.S. Low reservoirs, early wildfires and devastated crops are the first hints of the dry spell's effects. Experts say that even heavy spring rains won't make up for all the damage...
...living in Cape Cod, Christy browsed through the card section with her mother, who is visiting from South Dakota...
Often women drink to meet those boyfriends in the first place. According to Sharon Wilsnack, a professor in the neuroscience department at the University of North Dakota who has tracked the drinking habits of 1,800 women over the past 20 years, 60% of all drinkers said they felt less inhibited about sex. That was certainly true on a recent night at a bar near Syracuse University. The scene was at first reminiscent of a junior high school dance, as men and women self-consciously drank and chatted in separate huddles. As the night wore on, the groups slowly mingled...
...Crimson held a 7-3 lead going into the last end, but four timely points knotted the game for North Dakota, and Crawford took a shot right to the button—the center of the house—in the tiebreaker, for the 8-7 victory. This tournament’s tiebreaker is just one of a captain’s responsibilities...