Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, prepared to call it a summer and crawl back to Washington from his Texas ranch. It was better this year than last, when he broke an arm trying to catch one of his cows. Now the lucky statesman was suffering only from bee stings-four on one foot, from a bee in his boot...
...know who designed my modern china (Cavitt-Shaw, circa 1940), but at the home ranch and cow-camp, we like these cups. They keep coffee hot, and the handles let men, as well as women, who know better but like to do it, "hook" their cups. The ample wife of one rancher has trouble with the dribble. I thought it due to ill-fitting dentures, but noticed last dehorning that she laps her lip far down the side, as a child does...
...season, Nelson had talked wistfully of his 1,500-acre Texas ranch. He would go home, he said, turn up only for the Masters and one or two other tourneys a year, as onetime greats like Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen do. Nelson, winner of every major U.S. tournament (some of them four times) had lost the sustained mechanical precision with which he stroked out a fantastic average 18-hole score of 68.3 throughout...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...
...exhibit was done after the first of Remington's countless western tours. He made the trip at 19, on feet still tender from a year at Yale. He got his first callus when a tinhorn took him for his last cent. He added blisters working as clerk, ranch cook and cowhand. Finally he joined (as a correspondent) the fight against the Apache chief Geronimo...