Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southerners also enjoy a legacy of shared celebration. From the epicurean crab feasts of Maryland's Eastern Shore to a catfish fry in Tennessee, from Texan barbecue orgies to the days-long shrimp or gumbo feasts of Louisiana's Cajun country, Southerners are united in their love of a party-and its morning-after reconstruction. An old New Orleans saying: "The rabbit says, 'Drink everything, eat everything, but don't tell everything...
...Jones, 40, author within three years of three new plays as indigenous as hominy grits. Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia and The Oldest Living Graduate-known collectively as A Texas Trilogy-were brought to public attention on a typically Texan scale. Two New Year's Eves ago, Dallas Theater Center patrons experienced a triple-play production of all-night Jones that began at 7 p.m. and lasted through 2 a.m. Since then, Jones' trilogy setting, the mythical West Texas town of Bradleyville (pop. 6,000), has been...
...running mate by 9 a.m. Wednesday, the day of the presidential balloting. Some Ford delegates were eager to have the President put all his cards on the table too. Delegation leaders in the Northeast and pro-Ford delegates from Maine sought assurances in particular that Ford would not select Texan John Connally...
Already the prominent mention of Texan John Connally as being high on Ford's list was raising the objections of some moderate and liberal Republicans, who warned that the former Texas Governor would be a liability because of his close connection with former President Richard Nixon and lingering doubts about his role in the Nixon milk scandal...
...week long Ford had gained stature mostly by doing nothing. His reaction to the frantic Reagan maneuvering had been low-key. Perhaps he had learned the old wisdom of Texan Sam Rayburn's curt advice: "The three most important words in the English language are 'wait a minute.'" Since his hasty pardon of Nixon, Ford has typically moved slowly, listened widely to advice and pushed steadily on, waiting for his adversaries to slip. Reagan did so last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from...