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Word: houstons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near its top." By the 1870s, the snags, sandbars and erratic flow were stifling traffic along the Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rivers: Unlocking the Arkansas | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...provoke me for?" Significantly, no one has lodged a complaint against Sausalito police in two years. Their hostilities under control, the men are also freer to focus on serious crimes-residential burglaries and auto thefts have been cut in half. In similar sessions with local citizens, Houston cops are trying hard to understand minority-group problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE POLICE NEED HELP | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Sunday, September 29 AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE GAME (NBC, 1:30 p.m. to conclusion). New York Jets v. Buffalo Bills from Buffalo, followed by Oakland Raiders v. Houston Oilers from Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Houston vs. Oakland

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Pros | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...would be a good thing to transplant at least one lung, or a large part of it, along with a heart. Nine transplants of lungs, or lobes of lungs, have failed. The tenth, performed a fortnight ago by Dr. Arthur Beall of Dr. Michael DeBakey's team in Houston, was doing well last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: Beyond the Heart | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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