Word: texan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texan is not happy about persistent suggestions in the French press that his remarkable comeback may be caused by the same kind of performance-enhancing drugs that French and other riders were caught taking. Armstrong, who has repeatedly passed blood and urine tests, denounces the Gallic grousing as "disturbing" and "unfair." He attributes his results to "sweat" and hard training, adding, "This team has done more work than anyone else." Most racing teams are built around a single star, whose cohort protects him from crowding rivals, brings him food and water and shelters him from the wind. "Their job," says...
Talk about bouncing back. On Sunday ? three years after having been diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently undergoing four rounds of chemotherapy and two operations ? 27-year-old Texan Lance Armstrong rode triumphantly into Paris to become only the second American to win international cycling?s biggest race: the Tour de France. "What a compliment to his courage and to his doctors!" says TIME science contributor Fred Golden. "This is one of the most strenuous activities around." Armstrong, who had a hard time convincing any sponsors except the fledgling U.S. Postal Service team that he had it in him, finished...
...Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...
What to Look For Writer and director John Sayles won acclaim for Lone Star, his 1996 drama about a working-class Texan who must come to terms with his storied past. This summer Sayles brings us Limbo, a drama about a working-class Alaskan who must come to terms with his storied past. Deja vu aside, considering Sayles' proven track record, this art-house release may be worth checking...
...again. Black life was so cheap that whites almost never got the death penalty for killing blacks. After Byrd's murder, King gloated to an accomplice that "we have made history." He may just be right. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black since slavery ended...