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Word: texan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although this represented Paul Butler's first sharp departure from the line of Former Chairman Mitchell, he was still out of tune with Allan Shivers. When Shivers was asked whether he could support Stevenson in 1956, the Texan showed that he was anything but penitent. Stevenson, he said, would have to make "considerable changes." What changes? "Oh," said Shivers, "he'd probably have to change his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Two by Two | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...braking for the turns, shifting up to speed again, spinning and sliding through S-curve and hairpin, drivers lost no time making work for their mechs. And even the best of them ran into the kind of trouble no grease monkey can cure. Sweeping into a wide, unbanked turn, Texan Bob Said squinted over the hood of his three-liter Ferrari and saw danger. In the middle of the track, a tiny Renault had cartwheeled onto its back. Said drifted wide to miss it. Suddenly, he was bearing down on a stretcher where Renault Driver Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won? | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...fellow Texan Robert Anderson, now Deputy Secretary of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Spirits | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...moved into the White House, he nevertheless found time to play 18 holes of golf at chilly (35°) Burning Tree. He also found time to see the usual list of visiting students and folks from back home. Welcoming citrus men, he listened with a grin while an indignant Texan complained that the Texas grapefruit in a punchbowl the visitors presented to Ike had been buried beneath fruit from Florida, California and Arizona. Said Ike, who obviously realized that there is a limit to what a man can do in one week: "Well, I'm not gonna break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Burdens & Bosh | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...gibe provoked the day's only moment of presidential ire. "Well, Lyndon," scowled the President, "you may very well remember that there were a lot of things before Congress at the time, and Congress wanted another year of study." Retorted Texan Johnson: "I know, but Mr. President, we did have that year of study and then another year of a study of the study." Unhelpfully, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley reminded the President that the White House had "fixed up" the domestic watch industry, but had done nothing for Wisconsin cheese. Alarmed, Leverett Saltonstall spluttered that relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Bipartisanship | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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