Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather as hot and dry as a kitchen stove lid is an accepted part of life. West Texans like to say that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...
...Pinned down the bulk of Red China's army, which otherwise might have overrun all Southwest Asia. If Korea had not been resisted, Japan itself might now be gone...
Rope Dealer. Into this leadership vacuum has blown a tornado from the Southwest, a Texas-size (6 ft. 3 in., 204 Ibs.) hunk of perpetual motion named Lyndon Baines Johnson. To rank & file Democrats outside his own state of Texas, he is little more than a familiar name. But as minority leader of the U.S. Senate, moving around the Senate floor and into the Capitol Hill conference rooms, he has become the key U.S. Democrat as of June...
...also turned to a new life. He borrowed $75, hitchhiked to San Marcos and enrolled at the Southwest Texas State Teachers College. As many another youth of his age turned to sports, young Johnson turned to debate and campus politics. He became the star debater; he organized a new faction, which he called the "White Stars," to wrest control of campus politics from the entrenched, athlete-dominated "Black Stars...
Citation: "Son of the spacious American Southwest, whose breadth of vision, adventurous spirit, and free-reined energy have electrified the business world with all the thrill of a western romance...