Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East German watchtower or work detail; when the G.I.s peered through their binoculars, they could see East Germans peering right back. At some spots we were barely five yards from the Communist troops but exchanged neither word nor gesture with them. Said Major James Steele, a tall, lean Texan: "This is where the action is. We all know exactly what to do if things blow...
...MIDWEST. Near St. Louis, Six Flags Over Mid-America is a corn-belt version of its lively Texan Six-Flagship. At Gurnee, Ill., halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, is Marriott's Great America, with its ten-story-high carrousel. Not to be missed is Cedar Point, 50 miles west of Cleveland, one of the few old-style amusement parks to have made it into the theme...
...chief counsel to the totally biased Lane. Even he realized his acceptance would destroy the investigation's credibility, and the job was offered to Richard Sprague. The highly independent Sprague sought an unreasonably large budget, fought fiercely with the committee's equally stubborn chairman, Texan Henry Gonzales-and both chairman and prosecutor were replaced. The committee still exists but shows little promise of pursuing a judicious inquiry...
...Stoker's tale, Dracula is destroyed in a combined Anglo-American gesture: Jonathan Marker, an Englishman, decapitates Dracula with his great kukri knife in the same moment that Quincey Morris, a young Texan, drives his bowie knife into Dracula's heart. Stakes are used against vampires in Stoker's novel, but only against ravishingly attractive females...
When U.S. planes bombed Cambodia in 1970, Mary Walsh angrily stalked out of the University of Texas at Austin and worked at a string of odd jobs. Now 25 and the retiring editor of the Daily Texan, she speaks of her radical past as of a different era. "I've really calmed down and seen the logic of the middle ground," she says. "I'm just not ready to shout rhetoric any more at the cue of a red or black flag." Walsh is flying to Italy in August for a ten-month internship with the Rome Daily...