Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horse. The IRS's efforts to grapple with tax delinquents sometimes gets the agency into comically grotesque postures. The wife of a rich Texan got mad at her husband, told the IRS that he had been finagling on his tax returns. As an informer, she got a $50,000 payment -a portion of the extra tax the Government collected. Understandably, she did not want to tell her spouse about the payoff, so she failed to report it on their joint income return. The husband found out all about it when the IRS jumped on her for tax evasion...
...most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Theodore Roosevelt considered it "a fifth wheel to the coach." Harry Truman said it was "useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles as Administration spokesman and party leader. Those roles were not inherent...
...Dallas Texans: the American Football League championship, beating the defending champion Houston Oilers, 20-17, in the longest pro game in history. Ahead 17-0 at half time, Dallas was tied in the second half, narrowly escaped defeat in the regulation four quarters when Oiler Quarterback George Blanda, trying to pass to a wide-open receiver, hit himself on the helmet with the football. At the start of a sudden-death overtime, Texan Captain Abner Haynes unthinkingly elected to kick off, and into the wind at that. But the Dallas defense held, and Tommy Brooker eventually ended...
...market just waiting to be tapped," says Texan Jarrell McCracken. He can say that with a contented smile: at 35, he is president and chief stockholder of Word Records, Inc., the nation's largest producer of religious records...
...took charge last February after the company had lost a staggering $143 million in 1961. Lewis, a onetime Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1953-55), has tightened operations and tugged GD back into the black. On TFX he got some help from that charming, arm-twisting Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Pentagon insiders now refer...