Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing, the experts overlooked another kind of performance. Beverly Hanson, 23, of Fargo, N.D., carried less brilliance in her bag, but she seldom strayed from par or from the fairways. In her own steady fashion, the lanky North Dakota girl had won seven of the nine tournaments she entered this year, and she was coolly bent on taking No. 10. In the final, while little Mae made most of the spectacular shots, Beverly Hanson held to her sure, unshowy game, was 4 up after 18. On the 32nd, where Mae topped her brassie shot and recovered...
...were indeed running counter to .popular passion. The third judge on the appeals court, Clifton Mathews, dissented tartly: "The danger here suggested is not a fanciful one. The ability of Bridges and his I.L.W.U. to paralyze Pacific Coast shipping has been demonstrated more than once." In the Senate, North Dakota's loudmouth William Langer demanded a congressional investigation of federal judges to see if any are Communists or fellow travelers. The decision was also too much for plodding, verbose F. Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue, the special Department of Justice prosecutor who got Bridges convicted. "God help America!" he cried...
...patronage out of bureau payrolls, road projects, and reclamation dam plans in its huge ($32.5 billion) omnibus appropriation bill. Illinois' Douglas took his defeats philosophically. At one point when William Langer, standing next to him, was self-righteously arguing for flood control in his state of North Dakota, pumping out his reasons with his right arm, Douglas reached out and grasped Langer's hand and whimsically pumped along with...
Five of the 48 states had lost population: Arkansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma...
Before an awesome bonfire in the South Dakota buffalo-grass country, Ben American Horse, Head Chief of the Sioux, presented Cinemactor Van (Act of Violence) Heflin with a feathered warbonnet and the title of Looking Horse, formally adopted him into the tribe...