Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their luck in a separate division for modified U.S. stock cars. Ahead of the racers lay 1,946 miles of torturous mountain roads and sun-baked desert in the "run for the river," the finish at the Rio Grande city of Juarez, across the U.S. border from El Paso...
Dead Reckoning. In El Paso, Attorney Harold Potash, asking the city council to pave a road past a cemetery, wrote: "I am certain the inhabitants of the cemetery would appreciate...
...Paso is a good painter and a good writer. He loves his native Southwest, is steeped in its history and traditions. In his first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949), he was an artist writing exactly and movingly about another art: bullfighting. He was also a surprisingly good novelist exploring the range of courage, despair and fear in the heart of a brave...
...Better Business Bureau went into action. Wholesalers cooperated in the fight against shoddy merchandise. Manufacturers urged people to wait patiently for 1953 models. Said one TV executive wearily: "It's Denver now, but we'll have it all over again in Portland, Spokane and El Paso...
...Fulton. The great Sheen voice was first heard 57 years ago in the rooms above Newton Sheen's hardware store in El Paso, Ill. (pop. 1,800). It was quite a voice, even then. "Sakes alive, you could hear him crying three blocks away," recalls an uncle. "And when we were out riding in the buggy, Grandfather Fulton used to say, 'If you don't stop that crying I'm going to dump you out in the tumble-weeds...