Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower's political fire, according to all the polls, was burning low. But no one could ever have told it from his appearance in Oklahoma City last week for the second of his television series on national issues. From the moment of his arrival, he threw off the old popularity sparks. Riding in from Will Rogers Field in the presidential Lincoln, he stood like a campaigner with hands aloft before sign-carrying crowds ("We Liked Ike in '56. We Like Him Today"). That night at the Municipal Auditorium, he brought down the rafters with his retort...
...President flew west for his Oklahoma speech, got back to Washington at 3 a.m., was up and at his desk again before 8. After a second Security Council meeting Thursday, Ike drove over to tell 1,200 members of the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference his views on planning for emergencies: "The very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected; therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning. So the first thing you do is to take all the plans off the top shelf and throw them out the window and start once...
Grey clouds scudded across the autumn sun, and the largest crowd (62,000) ever to watch a college football game in Oklahoma shuddered in an even greyer silence. Out there on the patchwork turf of the University of Oklahoma's stadium, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were doing the undoable. It was bad enough that they had the Sooners beaten, 7-0, that they were breaking the longest winning streak (47 games) in intercollegiate football history. Now, with less than two minutes to go they were firing long, dangerous passes in a bold try for another touchdown...
Soberer citizens would have busied themselves running out the clock. But this was an afternoon on which the Irish could be forgiven anything. They were the last team to have beaten Oklahoma (in the opening game of 1953, 28-21), and the years between had left them a lot to atone for. Their young Coach Terry Brennan, 29. was literally fighting for his future. Last year he had led Notre Dame to its most disastrous season (2 won, 8 lost) since it started playing football in 1887. This season his team had begun by winning four straight...
...would probably be a good thing for the team to lose, said University of Oklahoma President George Cross. "Overemphasis on the winning part of the game will ultimately destroy it." But Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson and his Sooners did not seem to be listening. They whipped Missouri, 39-14, to lengthen football's longest current winning streak (47 games) and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl...