Word: texan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted when an attractive woman accepted his invitation for a nightcap in his Manhattan hotel room. But after a couple of drinks, he went blank. When he did not show up for a morning business meeting, his colleagues grew worried. They went to his room and found the Texan wild-eyed, heart pounding and his mouth dry as cotton. He was also hallucinating about little creatures that were trying...
...stupid mistake and it sounded really strange. We just started joking about it-me and the guy on the other end-and we started talking about what kind of night it was; the guy was telling me how busy he was, things like that. And this guy had a Texan accent, and I like Texan accents so I asked him where he was from, and he told me Houston. And you know, I just didn't feel like taking the bus home that night, and I didn't want to call my father to come pick...
Aside from wealth, abundant natural resources, Texas Instruments and a lot of dirt, Texans really don't have much to brag about. But when a Texan tells you Blue Bell is the best commercially distributed ice cream in the world, that's not bragging. That's just plain fact...
...Morris Udall, a handful of liberals had proposed an alternative one-year tax cut that was easily voted down. Said John Conyers of Michigan: "We can't out-Republican the Republicans and then beat Reagan." Other Democrats were ready to punish the party rebels, such as Texan Phil Gramm, who sat in on Democratic budget caucuses while working with the White House, and Hance, who not only co-sponsored Reagan's tax cut bill but also won $40 in a White House staff pool by correctly guessing the number of Democrats who would bolt with...
...Bill Woods, a Texan who arrived in Guatemala and quickly decided to open up unused northern jungle land for Indians, who were running out of farming space in the highlands. Despite feverish opposition and regular threats on his life from landowners in the area, by the 1970s Woods had managed to relocate 1,000 families. Then, three years ago, the priest's small plane exploded in midair. Missionaries are convinced Woods was murdered...