Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best characters are the historical figures, like Santa Anna and Sam Houston. Michener, however, didn't bother to treat them with sensitive, accurate portrayals. He wrote about them what people generally thought about them. Some of the best parts of the book are the scenes that told the truth about these historical figures. Michener's portrayal of Sam Houston, who was Governor of Tennessee, fled in a scandal, and went on to become President of the Republic of Texas and Senator from the state, will probably go into American folklore...
Sophomore David Huang is into the higher numbers of higher education. After racking up a first-year average of 3.7 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, he has a course load this semester of 16 hours of organic chemistry, biology, calculus and microcomputer graphics. The only small number Huang is concerned with is his age. He is nine years old. "I want to be a doctor, a surgeon," he says, "but I'll probably have to wait until I'm 21 before they'll let me practice." The only child of Thai immigrants, he was reading...
...curved horizon before them in the orbiter's front window. The crew, dead serious now in the early moments of the flight, proceeded in efficient monotones through checklists, opening and closing switches, scanning the warning lights on the cockpit panels, coordinating with mission control. Fourteen minutes into the flight, Houston relayed a message of congratulations from the President, written in robust Rose Garden prose...
...cocky. They began to try out banter over the radio in the style of deadpan macho that astronauts affect. When the fire started, Parker took emergency steps (activating switches to spray the area with a chemical fire retardant) and offered a nonchalant little witticism: "Uh, that's a roger, Houston . . . We have standby marshmallows on board." The mission calmed down and Commander Cerier improvised in low-key astronautical style: "It's a pretty view from up here . . . Looks like Miami's going to have a nasty shower, Houston...
...HOUSTON--Phil Garner and Dickie Thon drove in second-inning runs to back rookie Charlie Kerfeld's pitching and give the Astros a 2-0 victory yesterday over the Atlanta Braves...