Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portable Commode. It should take the big, quietly efficient hospital at Bethesda, Md. quite a while to recover from Texan Johnson's visit there, for the boiling energies that had laid him low would not be stilled. "I'm tired of female talk," Johnson snapped at his nurses. "I want to see my staff." Before long, his aides were not only traipsing in and out of his 16th-floor room, but had usurped the office of the floor physician to carry on round-the-clock political business by telephone...
...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amon G. (for Giles) Carter, devout Texan, found it easy to explain his paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing...
...their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
...shortage has already taken hold in Texas, where population jumped 130% between 1890 and 1950, and water consumption an astonishing 13,500%. What this means is that today's Texan uses 135 times as much water as his grandfather, and some parts of the state are draining their reserves. Houston, for example, is pumping from wells so fast that the land is actually sinking, from six inches in the business district to more than three feet in suburban Pasadena. Though enough rain falls on Texas every year to cover the entire state to a depth of 30 inches...
...years ago a young West Texan lawyer named William Kugle, who moved to Galveston in 1950 and was elected to the state legislature without being asked his views on vice, tried to shut down the city's notorious red-light district on Post Office Street. Mayor Cartwright's police commissioner. Walter Johnston, at first resisted. Then he calculated that the doxies would fan out into the residential neighborhoods, setting up a counter-Kugle pressure from the citizenry to restore Post Office Street to its old game. Johnston acted, he said, "with great reluctance," for, in following the prostitutes...