Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave Steeves was due at his home base in Selma, Ala. in about four hours...
...more than three times the size of Rhode Island-overreaching Los Angeles County, enveloping adjacent Orange County to the south. It is the nation's fastest-growing megalopolis, with a population (6,000,000) exceeding that of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada combined. And, like an energized amoeba, it is bewilderingly fertile...
...hours of speechmaking, the talk-tired Senate, backing up Bill Knowland, voted to bypass the Eastland roadblock under Rule 14. The tally: 45 to 39, with eleven Northern Democrats (not including Oregon's civil righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood of filibluster...
Arkansas' John McClellan, Delaware's J. Allen Frear Jr., Georgia's Richard B. Russell and Herman E. Talmadge, Louisiana's Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina...
Delaware's John J. Williams, Idaho's Henry C. Dworshak, Indiana's William E. Jenner, Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, Nevada's George W. Malone, North Dakota's Milton R. Young, Ohio's John W. Bricker, and Wyoming's Frank A. Barrett. Paired against the bill: Arizona's Barry M. Goldwater, Nebraska's Roman L. Hruska, North Dakota's William Langer...