Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading one element of the Sabres was a Texan named Royal N. Baker, who had flown British Spitfires against the Luftwaffe in 1942, was now, at 34, a colonel and commander of the Air Force's 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. Nearly 40,000 ft. up, Baker and his followers ran into a flight of eight MIG-15s. Two of the MIGs turned tail and headed for the Yalu. Taking out after one of them, Baker edged close, fired one short burst. The shots "just sprayed the air because I was caught in his jetwash." From 1,200 ft. away...
...Texan knows, the Lone Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk...
Many a good Texan agreed with Columnist Wes Izzard of the Amarillo Daily News: "No bunch of smut merchants can hurt Texas . . . They decided to insult somebody to get their magazine back in the limelight . . . Don't play into their hands by buying a copy." But such warnings did little good. When Esquire hit the stands, Texans flocked...
...Tall Texan (Lippert) is a short-order horse opera about a group of as sorted characters lusting for gold and a woman in the wide open spaces of the old West. After approximately an hour of gunplay, almost everyone is killed off, except the girl (Marie Windsor) and a strong, silent type (Lloyd Bridges), who have come to love each other. Of some interest to western fans may be the weird New Mexican rock formations that abound in the film...
...billion a year before), consumers also managed to salt away more savings in 1952 ($18.5 billion, $1.5 billion rise over '51). Never had the U.S. had so many jobs (62 million) and so little peacetime unemployment (1,700,000). Its prosperity was extravagantly symbolized by a Texan's wisecracking solution for Dallas' traffic problem: "Rule all Cadillacs off the street during rush hours." Answered a reader of the Dallas News: "If you did that, how would we working people get home...