Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the spotlight before a packed audience of all ages at the Washington, D.C., armory. By longstanding tradition, the opening was billed as Congressional Night at the Circus. Seldom at a loss for words, Humphrey kept up an authentic ringmaster's patter for half an hour as North Dakota Senator Quentin Burdick and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens plus 14 Representatives dressed as clowns paraded around the ring on elephants before the regular show. Perhaps noting the lack of donkeys, Senator Henry Jackson was a no-show. Instead he went to Circus America, the rival big top now playing...
...predictions that he terms conservative, Lewis says that the Democrats will gain three seats in the Senate--in Kentucky, Florida and North Dakota--and that the Democrats will net a gain of two governorships, picking up Arizona, California, Connecticut and New York while losing Alaska and South Carolina...
Three of the U.S. states in between, Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, contain the bulk of the nation's coal reserves. In addition, Burlington Northern owns 2.4 million acres of timber and farm land in the Great Plains states and has mineral rights to another 6.1 million acres. Those rights, granted by Congress and state legislatures in the 19th century, have endowed the railroad with coal reserves of some 11 billion tons, or about 18 times more than all the coal mined last year...
...tense as Means or his wife. I asked Mark Banks, Dennis's brother, if he thought the 1868 treaty between the U.S. government and the Sioux would be admissible evidence; he said he certainly hoped so. (But this defense tactic could backfire: The treaty grants much of western South Dakota to the Sioux, but it also permits Federal forces to intervene in disturbances on that land...
Once the Guard has reached its capacity of 2,000, singles-and those pretending to be singles-wait patiently in lines 100 deep, even in subfreezing temperatures. Some of them come from as far away as North Dakota, Upper Michigan and Wisconsin...