Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money player before 30, and even then new challengers have been rare; a virtually unchanging set of veterans has been dividing big U.S. purses since World War II. But last week many a winter tournament spectator and most of the pros themselves were betting that a 27-year-old Texan named Jack Burke would crash the charmed circle for good...
...Stop It!" For seven rounds, the fast-stepping Texan fought rings around his opponent, swarthy George Small of Brooklyn. Roach was so far ahead on points that he could not help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...
Finally, shiny-pated Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has a Texan's distaste for FEPC itself, brushed aside two more Southern appeals for adjournment and ordered the District of Columbia Committee to call up any measures it had on tap. If it had none, FEPC supporters would be next at bat-and that was precisely what the Dixie-controlled District Committee wanted to avoid. For the rest of the day its members kept the House in meandering debate on the question of incorporating the Girl Scouts, enlivening the discussion occasionally with a few bitter sideswipes at FEPC...
Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...