Word: texan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're not all cowhands and they don't all live on the Rio Grande. But many of Harvard's Texan students share one trait: they're very fond of their state. And now, they have an outlet for their pride...
...Texas Club of Harvard, founded last year, attempts to create stronger links between Texas and the state's Harvard population. Made up of approximately 80 of the 270 Texan students at Harvard, the club aims to provide support during what could otherwise be a difficult transition for first-years and upperclass students alike...
...happy time to be a Texan. John Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas in November of 1963. I was in college and I assure you, going to school in Massachusetts with a Texas accent was not a lot of fun. One of the first things I learned to do was speak without a Texas accent...
ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely...
...referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove mini-series: a haggard Texan who loves horses and leads...