Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardy cactus may be doomed by rustlers and smugglers...
...hordes of tourists. The gawkers find the joint a lot seamier and steamier than its movie version. Says one reformed Gilleyrat of his old crowd: "If they don't get into at least one scrap, they think their weekend is wasted.' Houston, which had a dozen cactus cabarets in 1975, now has more than 300, few of which care to emulate Gilley's Dodge City style. The most successful, Fool's Gold and San Antone Rose, are in affluent residential areas and cater to Gucci gauchos. A Houston-based conglomerate, McFaddin-Kendrick, has launched a national...
...What do we want with this worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts and these endless mountain ranges?" - Daniel Webster...
However, they have little time to be anything but virtuous. Up in the mountains or over on the butte, the cowpokes constantly deal with hunger, flood, stampedes and illness. Their trials are immediate and personal, and in overcoming them they create a kind of cactus morality play that readers want to see repeated...
...dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...