Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orange Bowl at Miami, Maryland, the U.S.'s No. 1 team (minus its All-America Quarterback Bernie Faloney for most of the game), came a cropper at the hands of underdog Oklahoma, 7-0. The Sooners, the nation's top offensive rushing team, twice stopped Maryland inside their loyd. line and shut out the Terrapins for the first time in 51 games...
Student nurses, with dark capes billowing behind their white uniforms, pranced into a back ward at Central Oklahoma State Hospital at Norman one day last week. Their exaggerated steps kept time with the firm beat of The Stars and Stripes Forever, played fortissimo over the public-address system. In their hands, accenting the rhythm still more, they held tambourines, clappers, castanets, maracas, and even bongo drums. Other nurses, also armed with noisemakers, stood around among the patients...
...Slow-Up? How the natural gas industry felt about the ruling became quickly evident at the winter meeting of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission in Oklahoma City. Some oilmen who produce gas merely as a byproduct recklessly threatened to burn their gas rather than submit to federal regulation, since they feared it would open the way to oil price regulation also. Since oil and gas frequently come from the same well, regulating the price of one would affect the price of the other. Others pointed out that recent contracts between gas producers and pipeline customers provided for automatic cancellation...
Forewarned, Forearmed. In Oklahoma City, after hiring an ambulance with two attendants. Attorney Charles Ham Jr. rode in it to his ex-wife's home, angrily told her gentleman friend, "One of us is going to ride to the hospital," after a short fist fight was carried to the ambulance and driven to the hospital...
...scholarships, awarded on the basis of "character, intellect, leadership, and physical vigor" were given to Paul Douglas Sheats, of Washington, D.C. and Eliot House, Frank Ira Goodman, of San Antonio and Lowell House, Eliot Dexter Hawkins, of New York and Eliot House, and Martin Alvord Kramer, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Eliot House...