Word: elk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead." Black Elk of the Oglala Sioux...
Above the Elk and the Moose...
...insensitive to the opinions of those they supposedly represent. Those with some integrity are naive and seem incapable of differentiating between industry-oriented nonsense and sound thinking. As a group, they are unaware of those resources that make our state great, consistently placing Union Pacific coal interests above trout, elk and moose habitats. The people of the state, even those directly benefiting from "industrial progress," do not agree with their priorities...
UNITED STATES. Now threatened with extinction, to join the Eastern elk and passenger pigeon, are the American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which has destroyed more native plants and animals in the 192 years since Captain Cook's arrival than has all the rest of America in the same period. Hawaii's endangered wildlife -partly ravaged by the introduction of outside predators like mongooses and rats-includes all the fresh-water...
...shaky economy of his piney-woods district by obtaining pork-barrel projects. A tireless worker, he goes to his office seven days a week, puts in ten hours each weekday. Despite his reputation for vituperative oratory, Patman in person seems more like a grandfatherly American archetype: Baptist, Mason, Elk, Shriner, Eagle and American Legionnaire (all of which he is). Briefly a widower, Patman two years ago married a Texarkana widow in her 70s, whom he had dated as a teenager. People who know him only from bombastic broadsides are often surprised at his cherubic smile, soft voice and gentle blue...