Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of contenders because many of the contenders who have higher ranking than him are afraid to get in the ring with him. No one knows what happened to his parents. Before it was revealed in the popular press that Howard Hughes had died on the way to a Texan hospital it was believed among wrestling cognoscenti that Hughes was engaged in a nuclear deterrent project with Clark. Since the "Skuzz-Bomb" can actually generate nuclear radiation through the process of exhausting his half-lives, Hughes believed that sensitive Russian radiation equipment would mistake Freeman's emanations from nuclear explosions...
...Administration spokesmen seemed to feel that Nixon's purpose was less to resurrect himself than to crucify Ford. Some even speculated that Nixon wanted to harm Ford in New Hampshire so that the ex-President could broker a deadlocked Republican convention this summer and tip the nomination to Texan John Connally, the lapsed Democrat. Whether that was true or not, it was clear that, whatever his ulterior motives, Nixon had allowed himself to be manipulated by Peking for the purposes of Chinese, and not U.S., foreign policy. Following by just 2½ months an unproductive trip to Peking...
...USED TO BE SAID of Lyndon Johnson that whenever he felt the urge to sacrifice a little political capital for the sake of principle, he would lie down until it passed. A generation of Texas Democratic leaders learned that policy at the knee of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texan whose favorite motto was "to get along, go along." That attitude helped make Rayburn the longest-tenured Speaker the House has ever had--he held the job for a total of 17 years--and probably the most influential politician in Texas history. Fourteen years after his death, Texas politics...
...fanciers call themselves, stirred up chile con possum, rabbit, chicken, pork, rattlesnake, ham hocks, jerky and Portuguese sausage. An Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow the bow off the Bounty. For added flavoring, rival chili heads stirred in dried armadilla blood, tequila, beer and, it was reported, marijuana. Singer Kathryn Grayson...
...Dixon '47 a hard-drinking Texan who has flown from El Paso for the game remains puzzled: he is convinced he has seen Bateman before, playing under a different name for either UTEP or Paul Quinn College in Waco...