Word: sioux
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Jonathan Hullah is from Sioux Lookout which, he tells us, lies "nearly 2000 miles northwest of Toronto." Although this sounds to an American like code for the North Pole, the narrative stays in the township long enough to give the young Hullah a youthful bout with scarlet fever (childhood disease is a favorite repeated trope of Davies), the friendship of an Indian healer and wise woman named Mrs. Smoke (who saves him with neither scalpel nor the Merck Manual) and a lifelong interest in medicine, especially non-traditional medicine...
...Cunning Man does not, however, purport to be Hullah's chronological autobiography, and does not move as a blow-by-blow account from Sioux Lookout to the moment Hullah takes up pen and begins to write...
...year-old has-been who last pitched in the majors in 1991 agreed to become baseball's first "prominent" strikebreaker. Former Boston Red Sox righthander "Oil Can" Boyd, who threw five games for the Class A Sioux City Explorers last year before injuring his shoulder, said he would cross the picket lines in a bid to return to the Show: "If this is what it takes, then I'm going...
While it's clear where these offers are coming from (opportunistic companies), it's less clear how these people tracked us down. The credit card applications that have landed in my box come from Manchester, N.H., Wilmington, D.E., Sioux Falls, S.D. and just about everywhere in between. They have slogans like "special student offer," "congratulations...
...career center of Sioux Fall's Augustana College, Doug Noteboom, the director, said he is not sure his city merits its top 30 ranking...