Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoken out" against any bishop of the church; my theology is much better than the condensed and out-of-context quotes at the end of the article would indicate; and never have I been a "Yankee-hater"-even though my mother's grandfather happens to have been a Texan...
...sums up the Texan of today by quoting British Journalist George Warrington Steevens' summary of the turn-of-the-century American: "He may make his mind easy about his country. It is a credit to him, and he is a credit to it. You may differ from him, you may laugh at him; but neither of these is the predominant emotion he inspires. Even while you differ or laugh, he is essentially the man with whom you are always wanting to shake hands...
Knickerbocker's jolt led him to write a letter to Texas' Republican Senator John Tower, protesting "a treasonous situation" in which four Yugoslav pilots and four maintenance men were being trained at Perrin in the use of the F-86. By last week angry Texans had formed a "National Indignation Convention" that was drawing crowds of 2,000 and more at its rallies. And the fuss stirred up by Texan Knickerbocker was making national headlines about the policies of three U.S. administrations on military aid to Communist Yugoslavia...
...course of his tour of Asia last spring, Vice President Lyndon Johnson stopped on a Pakistani roadside to greet an impoverished, illiterate camel-cart driver who had a grin as wide as his handlebar mustache. A true Texan, the Vice President casually invited Bashir Ahmad to "come and see us, heah?" A Karachi columnist picked up the invitation and ran with it: "My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He'll stay at the Waldorf-Astoria." Almost before Johnson could say L.B.J., he realized that his invitation had been accepted, and he was stuck with it. Last week Bashir jetted into...
...colonel's billet at U.S. European Army headquarters in Heidelberg. But last week came word of his release from Pentagon purgatory and reassignment to Hawaii, where he will become assistant chief of staff for training and operations in the Pacific-a prestigious post indicating that the combat-proved Texan still had a shot at a third star...