Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After only a few days of Texan Allen's ingratiating techniques, Japanese Baptists were impressed. Said one Tokyo pastor: "We're going to have to shift gears in our thinking...
...Crow. In Sumner, Miss., an all-white jury decided that a white cotton-gin operator was not guilty of murder when he fired two charges of buckshot and one of squirrel shot into the body of a Negro gas-station attendant with whom he had an argument. In Washington, Texan Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, felt obliged to announce that he did not "anticipate" that irreconcilable views on racial segregation would split the Democratic Party in 1956. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill another U.S. lawmaker, an owlish, bespectacled man with a dead cigar in his mouth, stared unblinkingly...
...fairways. With her rhythmic, classical swing, Louise can whip the clubhead around and belt the ball with the assurance of most male pros. Halfway through the 72-hole tournament, Louise Suggs's steady shots had her out in front by one stroke. Behind her, tied for second, were Texan Betty Jameson and South Carolina's Betsy Rawls. Patty Berg was three strokes off the pace...
Although a final solution has not been reached, it seems doubtful that both sides will ever be completely happy. The editors will feel uneasy because the conflict is apt to be solved on legal rather than on moral grounds. A legal decision would overlook the original cry of the Texan--"The Texan cannot yield. To do so would be to deny the principle of a campus free from coercion...
...threat has not been removed and the Regents show no intention of doing so. The present prospect of the relationship between Texas and the Texan was described by the head of the school of journalism as a "partnership...