Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Depression, he drove around Holdenville in a dazzling Pierce-Arrow. Recalls Tommy Treadwell, a retired local banker: "Little T- Bone, as his father called him, was so embarrassed about that car that he insisted on being dropped two blocks from school whenever his father drove him there." Pickens' mother, by contrast, was a practical woman who never made snap decisions. During World War II, she ran Holdenville's gas-rationing program. "I was very fortunate in my gene mix," says Pickens. "The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis." While...
...prankster who liked to throw bags of water from hotel rooms during road trips. When a broken elbow cost Pickens his athletic scholarship, he switched to Oklahoma State for his sophomore year. While there, he married Lynn O'Brien, his high school sweetheart. She was 17, he 20. "My mother says she never saw anyone grow up so fast," Pickens recalls. After two years on the dean's list, he graduated with a degree in geology and joined Phillips Petroleum, where his father then worked as a lease broker...
Pickens named one major discovery, a 1975 North Sea strike, after his new wife, Beatrice. The daughter of a rancher and the mother of four children by a previous marriage, she and Pickens first met as college students in Oklahoma. She married one of Pickens' fraternity brothers, but they divorced in 1969. Pickens describes his life with Beatrice as "the perfect deal." She is almost as sure a shot as Pickens (an award-winning marksman), with whom she likes to hunt quail. A skilled horsewoman, she is also deeply interested in her husband's work. The year they were married...
...named Tim who lost the knack of sitting his horse. A police officer turned Tim over to a van full of out-of-town celebrants headed back to Mamou and turned his horse over to another rider. Tim said he had had eleven beers. In town the boy's mother saw her child slumped in a car packed with strangers. "Tim," she shouted with alarm, "what are you doing in there...
...unable to respond. Passing him into his mother's arms, the driver offered consolation: "Ma'am, I think you ought to know he was hell while he lasted...