Word: amarillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning after a hurried breakfast with the Cabinet, the President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
...years ago Conley, then a Signal Corps sergeant, met and married pretty Lucille LaCroix. After the war the Conleys settled down in Amarillo. Lucille was unhappy. In January 1947 she shipped her clothes back to Brockton, borrowed $280 from loan companies, withdrew the Conleys' last $430 from the bank. Then one night she got Bob to take her to a movie. During the show she sneaked out, leaving Bob sitting in the theater, picked up the baby and caught a Brockton-bound plane...
...went to Brockton, got in a scuffle with Mother-in-Law LaCroix, took baby Lynette back to Amarillo, where she is still cared for by Bob's mother. Bob went to Massachusetts, where Probate Judge Harry Stone, who had given custody of the child to Lucille in a divorce action, sentenced Bob to nine months for contempt because he refused to bring Lynette back from Texas. Since then, Judge Stone has resentenced him four times, as each term expired...
Many a good Texan agreed with Columnist Wes Izzard of the Amarillo Daily News: "No bunch of smut merchants can hurt Texas . . . They decided to insult somebody to get their magazine back in the limelight . . . Don't play into their hands by buying a copy." But such warnings did little good. When Esquire hit the stands, Texans flocked...
...Amarillo, Texas, Princess Cecilia of Prussia, 35, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm, renounced her title, took her U.S.-citizenship oath and became plain Mrs. Clyde Harris, wife of an interior decorator and former Army captain whom she married in Germany...