Word: alamos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asked whether he would ask that his name be withdrawn, he replied by quoting from the last letter written by Col. William Barrett Travis, the leader of the Texans who fought and died at the Alamo: "I shall never surrender or retreat...
...former Texas senator paused briefly and said, "I am a little sorry I brought up the Alamo analogy. It just occurred to me what happened at the Alamo just 10 days after Travis wrote that letter." Texas defenders were wiped out by the Mexicans...
...disappeared in a satisfying cloud of gray- black smoke. The explosion, though, caught the attention of hostile aircraft up and down the coast. Soon the warning lights on my display panel were lighted up like a pinball machine. I was able to evade an incoming AA-10 Alamo missile by releasing a burst of radar-deflecting chaff, and I fooled an SA-10 surface-to-air missile by sending out a decoy drone. But all the electronic countermeasures in the world were not going to get me back to my aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Sirte now that...
...kind of noble mystery to it and such a pathetic persistence that Texans like Journalist Molly Ivins turn him down wistfully, wishing they did not have to. "I think created Texans are just as good as birth Texans," she says. "Most of those who died at the Alamo had come from somewhere else. But Bush has to know that there are three things a Texan does not do. We do not use 'summer' as a verb. We do not wear blue ties with little green whales on . them. And we do not call trouble 'doo-doo.' We're not setting...
...Jones dinners, using no silverware, have been a tradition since the co-op's beginning. They are usually followed by food fights. Henry M. Sandow '75-'77 described a particularly huge one, nicknamed the Battle of the Alamo. "We cleaned out the contents of three refrigerators, threw about thirty dozen eggs, dumped a five-gallon can of oil on the floor and overturned the tables. It ended when somebody got the firehose and started spraying everybody--they were all falling down because of the oil. Then we cleaned...