Word: oneida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City and the strong Rockefeller campaign of 1958 have delayed the Democratization of Upstate. But the results of the elections last year and last week strongly suggest that it has finally arrived. In 1964, Robert Kennedy piled up significant majorities in traditionally Republican counties like Onondaga (Syracuse), Oneida (Utica and Rome), Rensselaer (Troy), and Chautauqua and Cattaraugus (Southern Tier). Democratic Assembly and Senate candidates also were swept in, producing the first Democratic legislature in thirty years...
...Cherokee Strip, who played a bone-bruising tackle for five years for the Giants, as coach won eight Eastern Division titles and two world cham pionships, retired in 1953 when the razzle-dazzle aerial game found him wanting in the win column; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Oneida...
...Oneida (pop. 500) and Sheppton (pop. 1,100) are bleak little towns about a mile apart in the worked-out anthracite fields of eastern Pennsylvania. The women age fast while their men scrabble for a living in bootleg mines-tiny, independent operations that ignore rigid safety standards. From one such mine, dug into the side of the hill that separates Oneida and Sheppton, two men were rescued last week after nearly 14 incredible days of imprisonment beneath the earth's surface...
Struck by the fact that, as far as he knew, no photograph of the three living U.S. ex-Presidents existed, Utica Press Copy Editor Joseph Ray, of Oneida, N.Y., wrote the New York Herald Tribune that one ought to be made. "Let's get this historic shot taken while there's still time," he said. Noting the letter, Alan Richards, a Princeton, N.J., freelance photographer, dug through his files and came up with just such a rare shot, taken at Princeton University's 200th anniversary celebration in 1947. "Truman was still Ike's boss...
...Indians of the Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) were called Iroquois by the French because they allegedly closed conversations with the words hiro ("I have spoken") and koué ("with joy" or "with sorrow," depending on the tone of voice used...