Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senators?" With professional nonchalance, Valachi detailed hits (murders) he had a hand in, punctuated his scrambled syntax ("There was this fella named which he died a long time ago") with a solicitous "got dat clear, Senators?" They sometimes had not. Cried South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt at one murky point: "You're getting me all confused. It sounds like a Chinese chess game...
...South Dakota (4). Goldwater could check a drift to the Democrats...
...times, in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wyoming, Kennedy seemed to be trying harder to invoke the conservationist image of Republican Theodore Roosevelt than of the Democratic Party's openhanded patron saint, F. D. Roosevelt. Kennedy seemed ill at ease in this guise-and his audiences sensed...
...Soder Ash." In a 30-minute Duluth speech, he was not once interrupted by applause. At the University of North Dakota, where next day he received an honorary doctor of laws degree, the President's reception was equally cool. At Cheyenne, the people scarcely understood that he was talking about one of Wyoming's chief industries when he referred to "soder ash."* At Laramie, he twice stumbled over the word "electrometallurgy," finally ad-libbed: "The words are getting longer as the months go on." Smokey Bear was turning out to be a real turkey-and the President knew...
...Russell found several colleagues in a dismantling mood, and foremost among them was South Dakota Democrat George McGovern. Warning that "excessive" military spending was "distorting our economy, wasting our human resources and restricting our leadership in the world," McGovern called for a flat 10% cut from the $22.8 bil lion allotted to weapons procurement and research and development. The measure, blasted by Barry Goldwater as equal to unilateral disarmament, was opposed by 74 Senators, supported by three Democrats besides McGovern...