Word: alamo
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...anything differently. But like those before them, their judgments came not so much from events or from great policy deliberations, but from small facets of their conviction and experience. "I'm not going to be the first President to lose a war . . . Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Viet Nam . . . Come home with the coonskin on the wall." That was our President as he moved us deeper and deeper into Viet Nam. Lyndon Johnson, out of Texas legend, could not conceive of courage and wisdom...
...obsession the brothers never lost: at the slightest provocation, they are still ready to supply facts that might have come from these early lists. "Stonehenge is like the Alamo--it is not very impressive," one McWhirter may remark in passing. It is all but certain to begin a colloquy in which the brothers correct and interrupt each other, finish one another's sentences, and leap from one millennium to the next--all of it calmly, perfectly reasonably, in clipped accents, as though nothing else could possibly be expected. "Not very impressive? Well, how could it be? Built 1900 years before...
...granary for a dinner by candlelight. The high point of the day, though, occurred when the revelers assembled in the middle of a busy downtown intersection to give the former First Lady her $45,000 birthday present: an elaborate fountain carved from Mexican lava stone and placed near the Alamo on the spot where some of its defenders are said to have been burned in 1836. Mrs. Johnson pushed a button, the Ladybird Fountain gushed, and in a way, so did its namesake. Making the best of San Antonio's brick-oven climate, she wished: "Long may it cool...
...lost luster with a new single called Ragged Old Flag, which plays on America's patriotic wish to believe in itself, Watergate or no. Against the background of snare drums, banjos and a reverential chorus, Cash tells how the flag was shot up and torn at the Alamo and Chancellorsville, and then intones...
...most of Idaho, slices of Oregon, Montana, Washington and northwest Wyoming. Cochise unites major portions of Arizona and New Mexico. Plymouth embraces the city of Boston, the eastern portion of Massachusetts, and part of New Hampshire. New York City and environs would become the state of Hudson, and Alamo on the map is basically Texas without the panhandle. Under these circumstances, perhaps Old Glory could use some revitalizing, too, and Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center in Winchester, Mass., has come up with a striking new design for a national banner...