Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perhaps the American Indian has some right to be indignant at being misnamed by "some dumb honky who got lost," to use the words of a Berkeley student whom TIME ironically refers to as a "Sioux"-a good old honky name for the Lakota or Dakota people. But then, so would the Innuit, who were misnamed "Eskimo" by their traditional enemy, the "Indians." No racial insult was intended in the first misnaming-I'm sure plenty was intended in the second! And by the way, the artist whose photo you show is probably no more an Indian than...
...South Vietnamese will be able to hold off the Communists and what Nixon will do if they cannot, other Democratic doves hurled overstated broadsides. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called Vietnamization "a semantic hoax," adding, acidly, that it is "simply an extension of the Johnson for eign policy." South Dakota Senator George McGovern termed it "an effort to tranquilize the conscience of the American people while our Government wages a cruel and needless war by proxy." He even charged peevishly that the Administration was using the Pentagon to attack his patriotism...
...time that Indians got off their goddam asses and stopped letting white people lead them around by their noses," says Lehman Brightman, a South Dakota Sioux now working on a Ph.D. at Berkeley. "Even the name Indian is not ours. It was given to us by some dumb honky who got lost and thought he'd landed in India...
...there are seven senatorial seats to be filled for which there are no clear favorites. They include a seat being vacated in Ohio and those now held by Democrats Thomas Dodd in Connecticut, Ralph Yarborough in Texas, Gale McGee in Wyoming, Frank Moss in Utah, Quentin Burdick in North Dakota, and Republican Charles Goodell in New York, who was appointed to Robert Kennedy's seat...
...similar plan-offered by Master Charge in the states of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming-will provide about the same services for interest rates up to 18% annually. As soon as arrangements can be made, the idea is likely to spread to other states, allowing cardholders briefly to escape the immediate and full payment of federal taxes...