Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Hearst Society Columnist Cobina Wright who was born on an Oregon ranch: "It seems to me that there is a great deal of unnecessary and adverse comment being made by columnists about...
...doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...
...while working on a garbage detail ten days before his release, Prisoner Brown got some news that would make his coming-out party a real success: he was about to become a rich man. The Magnolia Petroleum Co. had run a test well on Brown's New Mexico ranch, had struck oil-1,400 barrels a day. The royalties from the one well alone would bring him in close to $840 a month, and the company was still drilling...
...cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...
...blonde edition of Rita Hayworth, protrudes from the Mexican atmosphere like a stock Hollywood femme fatale. Aficionados can take some solace in Director Rossen's bullfighting scenes, well-staged within Production Code limits, and the movie's wealth of such local color as a bull-breeding ranch and a religious street pageant...