Word: buena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served with distinction throughout the Mexican War, and of his exemplary conduct in the battle of Buena Vista said only, "I was under fire from 6 o.c. until 4." As artillery instructor at West Point, he taught the cadets with the same calm sobriety with which, during his Indian-fighting days, he removed an arrow from his chest...
...Verl Langford of Buena Vista, Colo., named No. 1 truck driver of 1947 by the American Trucking Association, was invited to the White House and congratulated by the President for having driven a truck since 1928 without an accident...
...story on Page One. Soon other tales of brutality came to light. A former state employe charged that a guard's kick had caused the death of another Golden boy last spring. There were stories of beatings, dark cells, bread-&-water punishment at the teen-age reformatory in Buena Vista...
Birth of Bedlam. Strong men and weak, good & bad-from Mormon Elder Sam Brannan to Roger Dearborn Lapham-have tried with varying success to run or rob or manage "The City" since it began life as Yerba Buena 112 years...
...Francisco, the fans gather in the dark Dawn Club, in an Annie Street cellar, to hear the unmuted two-beat Dixieland rhythms of a band that is neither Negro nor old. The eight musicians of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen...