Word: fannin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arizona: Riding in Senator Barry Goldwater's wake. Republicans turned a predicted loss into an unexpected gain, elected Republican Paul Fannin, 51, over State Attorney General Robert Morrison, whose youthful jail term (for bad checks) got plenty of campaign publicity...
Republicans scored decisive victories in all important Arizona races as Incumbent Sen. Barry Goldwater retained his seat and Paul Fannin was elected Governor...
...often overcrowded and understaffed schools and colleges-1,754,300 more than last year, and an astonishing one-fourth of the nation's population. "It gets to be more fun each year," said Mrs. Creta McVean, teacher of the first grade of Dallas' James W. Fannin Elementary School, as she looked forward to her 30th year of teaching school. "I anticipate what we'll be doing with a great deal of pleasure...
...last week, the epidemic of Coxsackie in Texas had spread beyond Bonham to other parts of Fannin County. Close to 8,000 people, one out of every five, had gotten it, and Texans claimed that it was the biggest epidemic of Coxsackie ever recorded. The National Institute of Health had a special team on the spot to get specimens of saliva, blood, and urine for lab analysis. Doctors speculated that the Coxsackie virus might act as a deterrent to polio. Only one case has been reported in Fannin County this summer...
...Fannin' and battin'" the shanks of a red-eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly, May got up, dusted off his skintight blue jeans and admitted ruefully: "I didn't do so good...