Word: oklahoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cowboy, the American bedouin, is the original self-contained traveler, but even he and his coach and his equine van can be found these days at rally sites. A ruddy Oklahoman, watering his bronco at the Minnehaha Roadeo, articulated one insoluble problem of motorized life. "The trouble," he said somberly, patting his steed, "is they ain't yet developed a vehikkle with holdin' tanks for hosses...
...going for me. The food tasted like a science project, my dorm was full of men whose only idea of activism was a sallow girl named Joanne, and none of my courses seemed relevant. I asked for a minority roommate, at least one, but instead was allotted a strapping Oklahoman with a "69" football shirt and soft contact lenses. He was the wayward son of a Senator. Some diversity, I thought. I am here to grow, I told myself one day in the Union when no one was listening. And the only way to get my father's money...
...City Artists. Many would live nowhere but in Seattle. "There are places not far from here where you feel you are the very first person to visit," says Dick Wrangle, 40, an Oklahoman who came to Washington ten years ago as a Methodist minister. Now he and his wife Cheryl are wood sculptors and cabinetmakers who earn a living selling their handmade furniture. The Wrangles would never move from their weathered cedar house in a former black slum in central Seattle. Says Dick: "The environment here fits my work...
MARRIED. David Boren, 36, the nation's youngest Governor, and Molly Shi, 34, a native Oklahoman of Scottish descent and special district judge; each for the second time; in Oklahoma City...
...basement of the Cannon Building and mounted his ten-year-old, three-speed Sears bike. He pumped out on New Jersey Avenue, rounded the corner to Independence Avenue. Beautiful day, he mused to himself. "Hi fellows!" he yelled to The Bronx's Mario Biaggi and fellow Oklahoman Tom Steed. They stared, then laughed and waved...