Word: odessa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been for its low tuition ($50 a year for state residents), John Clark, 20, of Odessa, Texas, would probably never have stayed on at Texas A. & M.* But he did not realize just how much he had disliked his 2¼ years there until he paid a visit to the University of Oklahoma. When he got back, Clark dashed off a letter to the undergraduate newspaper, The Battalion. It began: "Dear darling Aggies...
...early days. Washing flapped in the breeze that blew between firetrap tenements. Men scrabbled for thin wages in the city's sweatshops. But at the Alliance, anything seemed possible. Even an art school flourished in its crowded classrooms. In 1915 Abbo Ostrowsky, an energetic young artist from Odessa, began the art instruction he continues today...
...international competition wound up in Spain, the U.S. broke another record. Dick Johnson, a Mississippi State graduate student who already holds the world distance record (535.1 miles from Odessa, Texas to Salina, Kans., set last August), sailed along over an 80-mile course at a 66.8 m.p.h. clip, for a new speed record...
...tanker Apsheron neared her home port of Odessa this week, leaving a frothing wake of hard words and hurt feelings...
...Odessa, Grace Marie Olliff, 20, lay critically ill after an auto crash in which her skull, pelvis and left leg were broken. Doctors said that she must have blood transfusions to save her life. The patient said she was not a Jehovah's Witness, would accept the blood. But her father William, 51, pushed into her room and shouted: "You're trying to kill my girl." Flanked by his two sons, he stood guard at the door to prevent a transfusion...