Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this vast and varied service-welfare-housekeeping sector that cuts might have been looked for to balance increases in defense spending. In his Oklahoma City speech in mid-November, the President said that "savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities." That warning drew from Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the liberal camp, pained protests against dismantling the welfare state. But Ike's 1959 budget should soothe such fears: the welfare state comes through remarkably beefy...
...Scoring three touchdowns in the first seven minutes of the last period, lean, swift Oklahoma routed Duke in the Orange Bowl, 48-21. For Oklahoma, the victory salved some of the sting of this season's Notre Dame defeat that snapped its 47-game winning streak...
...drought-wrung, a steady caravan of humans clattered west over U.S. 66. Piled high in antiquated jalopies and steaming trucks were the precious things of their lives: children, a tacky mattress or two, tattered blankets, a stick of old furniture, cooking utensils, a flap of canvas. Behind them, in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, lay the dead land of the drought. Ahead, at the end of the road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were the bad years, and the Okies...
...Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia, Modesto, the Okies were Californians, still speaking the accents of the Southwest, still voting Democratic, clapping their hands to the hillbilly music of their favorite TV entertainer (''Cousin" Herb Henson), still whacking away at religion, Bible-belt style (Scotch-taped legend on one Oklahoma car: OBEY Acts 2:38). They had, most of them, made good-so good that nobody even thought to ask, "Whatever became of the Okies...
Among the airmen stationed at Ardmore Air Force Base in southern Oklahoma, an increasing number no longer walked with brisk military step or the traditional wild-blue-yonder look. First by ones and twos, then at the rate of ten a day, they shuffled with short, gingerly steps to the base hospital. Heads sunk to their chests, their breathing fast and shallow, they complained that it hurt if they breathed deeply. Any jarring motion, even from a few brisk steps, was painful. Some kept their arms folded to serve as a sort of splint for the chest...