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Word: rotan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, No. 33 trotted on to the field for his final fling. Some 22,000 fans were in the stands as Baugh ran through a series of downs, spent half an hour after the game signing autographs. Now a successful rancher with 6,355 acres in Rotan, Texas-thanks to some $300,000 earned in salaries and endorsements ("half went to Texas, half to taxes")-Sammy Baugh was altogether ready to call it quits after 16 years, the longest playing career in N.F.L. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 33 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Snake Eyes. In Rotan, Texas, after he had killed a rattlesnake behind the barn, Coe Hawkings went out in the dark and cut off the rattles for a souvenir, next morning noticed that the snake he had killed still had its rattles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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