Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Safety Corps (embryo army) is training with U.S. Pershing tanks, bazookas, antiaircraft guns, heavy mortars, howitzers. This force, which now musters 80,000 men, will have 110,000 effectives by year's end. The new Japanese air force will start training next month at Hamamatsu, 140 miles southwest of Tokyo. The nation has already started production of her first postwar airplane, the Tachihi R-52, a slow, low-powered trainer-but a beginning...
...weather was chilly, dry and dangerous. Across the land, patches of haze and smoke from forest fires hung in the air. In Idaho, Apaches flown up from the Southwest to fight fires vainly staged a rain dance (too far from home, said the braves, to do any good), and went home again. East and West, farmers scuffed at the powder-dry earth and reported winter wheat in danger. The months-old drought grew so bad that Dallas was almost without drinking water, and citizens were discouraged from taking baths...
...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...
...comes a cropper at that traditionally exacting hurdle, novel No. 2, Because The Wonderful Country is an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion, it is easy to respect it and wait with interest for No. 3. Lea's wonderful country is, of course, the Southwest, in particular "where Texas and New Mexico meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason: at 14 he killed a man back...
...Texas, now cinching an Ike victory, Ike won many cattlemen and farmers who had voted for Truman in 1948. Hemphill County, in the Panhandle, was 79.8% Democratic in 1948, but it was only 39.7% Democratic this week. In Southwest Texas, Menard county was 67% Democratic in 1948, only 32% this time...