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...Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, chairman of the Senate preparedness subcommittee, gave his in a scathing report that deliveries of planes, tanks and radar sets are 30% to 70% behind schedule. The reason, says Texan Johnson, is that "we didn't have the courage to put guns ahead of butter ... to put the cause of liberty ahead of the pursuit of luxury...
Three of the bombers and the one MIG were destroyed by Major George A. Davis Jr., a slight, blue-eyed Texan who raised his total kills to six and became the fifth ace of the Korean war (he shot down seven enemy planes in the Pacific during World War II). It was the day before his 31st birthday. He and his flight-mates feted their victory with roast beef and whisky...
There are two "Americans" involved in the story. Played by Martin Rudy and Hildy Parks, they are rather sad caricatures of a big Texan and a flamboyant millionairess; the blame for this however, must go to author Roger McDougall who seems to have gotten the impression that all Americans mix Coca Cola with their scotch...
Suspicion Confirmed. The boys played with their strange toy for a couple of months, until they burned a hole in Mrs. Epperson's clothes, too. She then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size...
...longtime newsman (26 years, nine papers), 46-year-old Texan Mewhinney does not regard himself as a columnist but as a "pick & shovel newspaperman," and still spends part of his week as a rewrite man. But his vast curiosity and freewheeling pedantry make him an ideal man for Meeting All Comers. In his spare time, he reads Latin, has taught himself to play the piano and has become a self-confessed authority on arrowhead making, jazz, Government regulations, paleontology, ornithology and coon-hunting...