Word: alamo
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...included 87-year-old political scientist Samuel Beer, who on his first visit to the White House shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been extolling the virtues of the global economy; and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, one of the first social scientists to identify the serious, long-term costs of divorce...
...Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against McLaren, his wife and five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department of public safety, Texas Rangers, border-patrol agents, Texas National Guard troops, Texas parks and wildlife agents, FBI agents, SWAT teams, armored personnel carriers and bloodhounds. "This is not the Alamo, and I'm not Davy Crockett," said Texas public-safety spokesman Mike Cox. "All we are trying to do is serve major-felony warrants...
...until I was 50. The tumor that was discovered was large and aggressive, but I am hopeful that my surgery was in time. Currently, researchers are looking mainly at older patients. We also need to focus more attention on the diagnosis and treatment of younger men. RICHARD SIGEL Alamo, California...
...scene reminiscent of the Alamo, 600armed Hutu refugeesremain holed up in a small church in Kibeho, vowing to fight to the death rather than surrender to government soldiers. Across the small country, government soldiers are trying to round up more than 2 million refugees and force them to return to their villages. That effort turned to horror over the weekend when at least 2,000 Hutus were killed at Kibeho when soldiers fired automatic weapons and mortars into their crowded camp. Today, anestimated 60,000 refugees were camped around Butare, a town 20 miles east of the refugee camp...
USAir was just one among 21 vendors at the fair. Other airlines included Delta and American Airlines. The fair also included car rental agencies such as Hertz and Alamo, and hotels such as the Hyatt, Holiday Inn and Sheraton Commander...