Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great machines are now crawling over new fields in Arizona and North Dakota, gouging up the mineral mainly to fuel new power generating plants. Reclamation efforts are officially described as "behind schedule." More huge reserves will be tapped in Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Even the landowners who stand to gain the most from sale of their property fear the result: 42,000 sq. mi. of land-an area larger than Ohio-might be turned into a sterile wasteland...
...course, Harvard may never get to play B.U. If the Crimson has momentum on the basis of its ECAC win. Minnesota has even more. The Gophers have won five consecutive collegiate games, dumping surging North Dakota, 5-2, in the WHCA finals last weekend...
...What drama there is comes from the constant onslaughts of nature. Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing (less and less in the later books, which are progressively directed toward slightly older readers), the Ingallses' frontier life comes through...
Only a handful of Senators have consistently called for a complete withdrawal of American forces from Indochina. They are not the most famous of public officials. They were junior Senators from small states: Ernest Greuning of Alaska, Wayne Morse of Oregon, Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, George McGovern of South Dakota. The first three are gone from the Senate. Only McGovern remains as an effective anti-war voice...
...George McGovern? Briefly: he is the junior Senator from South Dakota. He served two terms in the House and was elected to the Senate in 1963. He holds a Ph.D. in History and was a history professor at Dakota Wesleyan University. He was director of the Food for Peace program under President Kennedy...