Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband, the wife, and the husband's mother. The wife, in this case, is a giddy, shallow Texas shrew who browbeats her mother-in-law while exploiting her; the husband is too frightened to interfere; and the mother-in-law is a gentle, unhappy widow who likes Houston hardly better than her home life, and yearns for the small town of Bountiful where she lived long ago. In time she runs away to it, and is briefly happy among its ghosts before being forced back to the city...
Died. Major General John H. (for Houston) Church, 61, who in 1950 commanded the first U.S. troops sent from Japan to fight in Korea; after long illness; in Washington...
...preposterous and that it actually referred to a U.S. Army maneuver in military government with townspeople cooperating in the exercise. She was hastily ruled out of order. (Fifty members had previously quit after objecting to "the aura of mystery.") Minute Women boasted they had planted observers in University of Houston classrooms to watch out for controversial material and teachers. "A new meaning," wrote Reporter O'Leary, "has been given to the word controversial ... It now often becomes a derogatory epithet, frequently synonymous with the word Communist...
...Public Investigation. After the Post's exposé, the paper ran pages of letters from readers congratulating the paper for its "courage" in unveiling the organization. "I feel that what the Post has done," said Houston Teachers Association President Margaret Bliel, "has been tantamount to a [public] investigation." Said Reporter O'Leary: "In America, everybody should have the right to freedom . . . I think the Minute Women had a perfect right to do what they did. But I just think people ought to know that they...