Word: dugger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West, it is the tiny (circ. 7,000), fearless Texas Observer. In 14 stormy fears, the Austin-based biweekly paper las tangled singlehanded with oil and gas interests, exposed statehouse scandals, often made life painful for politicians in the land of Lyndon. The Observer's founder is Ronnie Dugger, a prodding, provocative University of Texas graduate who came back from one year at Oxford with a passion to unmask corruption and hypocrisy. With a number of equally talented and brash companions, Dugger has made his influence felt far beyond the state borders. Admirers often call the Observer he political...
Then, a few years ago, the paper began to wilt. The exposes became rarer, the style more turgid. Weary of the 40,000-word weekly grind, Dugger turned to more leisurely writing, including a soon-to-be-published book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward...
...list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state insurance agency and the Big Thicket, the stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies are cutting the trees and spoiling the chances of saving it as a national forest." Backed by Dugger as editor-at-large, Olds intends to rekindle the Observer's old fire-and Texans can again expect to feel the heat...
...Dugger followed Johnson with his best jump of the year, gaining him third place and the two team points necessary...
Soon it was full combat between police and snipers in the hall. Some 500 police stormed the dormitory, pouring more than 3,000 rounds of shotgun and carbine fire into the building. Officer Dale Dugger, 32, took a bullet wound in the cheek. Patrolman Louis Kuba, 25, was hit in the forehead and died six hours later. "It looked like the Alamo," said one policeman. Somehow, only one student was wounded. After the cops had raged through the dormitory, virtually all of its 144 rooms were wrecked-TV sets kicked in, clothes destroyed and even the housemother's sewing...