Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aaron Copland, D.F.A., composer. From Bay Street to Bourbon Street, from Appalachians to Alamo, from Piedmont to Puget Sound, from Flatbush to Fisherman's Wharf, his music captures the grandeur and diversity of the nation...
...Some 500 police stormed the dormitory, pouring more than 3,000 rounds of shotgun and carbine fire into the building. Officer Dale Dugger, 32, took a bullet wound in the cheek. Patrolman Louis Kuba, 25, was hit in the forehead and died six hours later. "It looked like the Alamo," said one policeman. Somehow, only one student was wounded. After the cops had raged through the dormitory, virtually all of its 144 rooms were wrecked-TV sets kicked in, clothes destroyed and even the housemother's sewing machine smashed...
...more than lived up to its lusty pledge-at least as long as it lived. The Chuck-Walla was one of in numerable fly-by-night newspapers that flourished on the Western frontier. Their exuberant, quarrelsome editors are now a forgotten breed. But, as Author John Myers Myers (The Alamo, San Francisco's Reign of Terror) makes clear, they were as much a fixture of the 19th century Western scene as outlaws and lawmen. Some Westerners were as passionate about putting out a paper as others were about accumulating cattle or prospecting for gold...
...Sadler doesn't take a step without offerings a 2000-word discourse on where he is going and where he has come from. He visits the Alamo; three pages on the history of Texas. On the Alamo's wall is a plaque recalling the battle of Thermopylae: two pages on the history of Greece. Sadler gets tattooed: a page noting everyone from Field Marshal Montgomery to Winston Churchill's mother who had a tattoo...
...their eyes all over the world. Except for you and your brothers who came here ahead of you, Korea would now be under the master's heel." Caught up in the tide of his own oratory, he recalle'd that his great-greatgrandfather had died at the Alamo, adding a previously unrecorded chapter to the family's martial annals...