Word: matagorda
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...counties of Wharton and Matagorda on the Texas coastal plain, cotton growers were dismayed to find their cotton plants blighted by a mysterious disease. Bolls were deformed, leaves twisted. Altogether 10,000 acres were affected...
Sunny's thirst for knowledge is something of an anticlimax in a short but eventful life. She grew up in Matagorda, Tex., where her father was an oil man-"I guess you'd call him a wildcatter." He was also, says Sunny, "sort of a heller." One day he was shot in a Texas hotel room ("Right between the eyes," says Sunny). Nobody ever found...
...Matagorda (pop. 1,250) on Matagorda Bay, the wind hit 100 miles an hour and before long every house was under water. Just as the station agent reported...
...adobe houses, on the cactus and the palm trees, on the children who had never seen it before. The heaviest snow in 33 years fell in Houston. And in mild astonishment the Texas newspapers reported that people were throwing snowballs in Port Lavaca, which lies on dreamy Matagorda Bay in the same latitude as the Canary Islands...
...maverick in the Southwest is a stray, unbranded calf; finders, keepers. The name comes from Samuel Augustus Maverick who landed in Matagorda, Tex. from South Carolina early in 1835 with a Yale education, $36,000 in gold and so much energy that when he died he left ten children and more land than almost anyone in the U. S. Only cattle he owned were 453 head, acquired for a debt, which he put on an island and forgot. When their unbranded offspring wandered ashore, cowmen would whoop, "There's a Maverick!" and rope...