Word: longhorn
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Frank C. Erwin Jr. is the biggest booster the University of Texas has. His Cadillac is orange and white-the school colors-and he dotes on the national-champion Longhorn football team. He is a tireless money raiser and wants nothing less than to make the U.T. system the best in the country. He has no patience with anyone or anything he considers damaging to his beloved alma mater-and since Erwin is chairman of the university's board of regents, his antagonists are automatically on red alert...
...student, or a devotee-head shaven-clothed in a plain saffron robe, or an elderly but open-minded adventures, or, perhaps, a Texan in town for the first time, your hair cropped closely around the edges, with your string tie held closely in place with a silver Longhorn clasp...
...paid off: two plays later Billy Dale rammed into the end zone for a touchdown with 68 sec. remaining. After the kickoff, Theismann threw two quick passes to take the Irish to the Texas 38. His next toss, though, stuck to the Arkansas script: it was intercepted on the Longhorn 14 by none other than Campbell. Texas had won the Cotton Bowl and its 500th game. Afterward, Royal admitted: "I thought fleetingly about a field goal. But if a champion is going to go out, he ought to be carried out feet first...
...business, the wildcatter is an operator who combines the cunning of a coyote, the nimble independence of a mountain goat and the ornery courage of a longhorn bull. Relying on instinct and experience as often as scientific aids, he drills wells in places where competitors feel sure that he will not find oil. Still, the wildcatters have discovered three-quarters of the producing areas in the U.S., and their exploits have written a rich chapter in the nation's industrial history...
...start this year. During the New Hampshire primary campaign, he sketched Romney, Rockefeller and Nixon as windup dolls running off haphazardly in all directions-and in the case of Romney, backward. Last week it was Lyndon Johnson's turn in the guise of a booted, bulbous-nosed Texas longhorn that horns in on a picture-taking session. "You gittin' my good side, oF buddy?" he inquires of the photographer. "Which side's that?" retorts an onlooker...