Word: texan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people are tourists, and they stop at Harvard University for the same reason they visit any other tourist attraction in the Boston area. One Texan says, quite simply, that "it is the thing...
...comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding tenaciously to a creed of activism that decrees, "With your hands carve out your destiny," he tends to be a hard-working farmer, a go-getting businessman or a fearless warrior. He has been described, with poetic license perhaps, as "the Texan of India...
...soft-spoken Texan, Merrifield is a graduate of UCLA and the 19th Nobelist to be associated with Rockefeller. He is the father of six children and for a while was the leader of a Boy Scout troop. When not at the lab, he spends his time happily tinkering around his house in Cresskill...
...meet a wild and woolly Texan, after all. Wasn't Clements the one who asked Governor Jerry Brown a question at dinner, and when Brown said he'd like to consider his answer, asked, "Can't you think and eat at the same time...
...built up an oil-drilling business called Sedco. The Sedco building is not a shiny tower but a set of refurbished woody offices housed in the shell of the first brick school in Dallas. The books that surrounded him were part of an 8,000-volume library of Texan history and lore that Clements has been collecting since the 1940s...