Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John, the slick Texan, swept into Washington last week and turned on his charm to sell his most cherished product: himself. Although John Connally's audience included more than 100 skeptical members of the National Press Gallery, even the clinking coffee cups were silenced. Still handsome and imposing despite the pounding of a topsy-turvy political career, Connally was in command...
Monaco on the Rio Grande? That's what Colonel Herbert Williams, 68, a fifth-generation Texan of Cherokee blood, envisions for himself. Says he: "Hell, I'm going to start my own country, make my own laws, run a country like God intended a country...
That night the captains stayed with the University of Miami team at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClelland, the owners of a plush April Sound condominium. Spence returned the Texan hospitality by performing a series of bawdy Harvard fight songs assisted by the megaphone and pom-poms belong to the McClelland daughters, who are high school cheerleaders...
...lack of organized sports for girls. Some feminists argue that in Texas more than elsewhere the preferred way for a girl to get ahead is to catch a man's eye, and what better way is there than twirling? Whatever its roots, the twirling line is as Texan as Lone Star Beer and chicken-fried steaks...
...Democrats also re-elected Texan Representative Jim Wright to his second term as the House majority leader. Wright and O'Neill said they would reappoint Rep. John Brademas of Indiana as Democratic whip and Illinois Rep. Dan Rostenkowski as chief deputy whip...