Word: crockett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order catalogs. Likewise, Bryan Crockett's gigantic balloon explosion could only have been made by a slightly obsessive character, perhaps an eccentric clown bored with his mastery of simple balloon wiener dogs and poodles...
...founder of the Boone and Crockett Club (which he named for two of his boyhood heroes) he lobbied Congress successfully to pass the law which created the national forest reserve system in 1891, and, during his presidency (1901-1909) the number of acres in the national parks increased from 45 to 195 million. These efforts were born of his hope that others might, as he had, find peace in the wilderness...
BORN: Feb. 6, 1946, Fort Lewis, Wash. EDUCATION: U of Texas, B.B.A., 1968, M.B.A., 1971, J.D., 1971 FAMILY: Wife, Ginny; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1970-78 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Texas House, 1981-84; mayor of Crockett, 1989-90; Texas Senate, 1990- ADDRESS: 603 East Goliad Avenue, P.O. Box 780, Crockett...
...classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later, fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver won a Senate seat and a passel of presidential primaries when he made a coonskin cap his own symbol of country roots...