Word: texan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whatever you want and it's really nice," university employee Bill Brooks, an eight-foot boa constrictor wrapped around his body, said in a story that appeared in The Daily Texan...
Neighborhood residents and small colleges in the area fear they will be forced to leave if the university is allowed to expand. The Daily Texan...
...serious hat is not a masquerade, not a goof and not an announcement that while a man may look like a middle-aged New York City account executive, he harbors a West Texan in his soul, the real interior galoot made manifest in the feathered Stetson that sits on the bar. The serious hat is the opposite of a disguise. It is a working piece of clothes and an adjunct of character...
...within weeks. Iran says that it sent experts to inspect the damage, but that they were bombarded by the Iraqis in air attacks. On March 2, Iraq announced that any ships that came near the damaged platforms would be treated as military targets. Iranian officials say they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there and cap a well unless...
...happens, is Olson, a droll and drawling Abilene Texan, who at the snap of a fiberglass tube this month hoisted himself 19 ft. ¼ in., becoming the first man to vault 19 ft. indoors. "I'm going to go higher," he promises, "I think a good bit higher, though I'm not saying how high. I don't want to do it some day and get happy with it. I want to go higher and higher." Just how high a man can go, like how fast and how far, has always been the peculiar fascination of athletics...