Word: texans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Texas law. which still unquestioningly recognizes a citizen's right to arms in home or place of business, police considered Texan Pinney had done his duty. A passionate man, whose first wife divorced him because he threatened to shoot her, Delta Pinney coolly mopped blood as the police listened. "You have to watch their eyes to stay alive," he said. "He blinked his eyes, and I killed him. I don't have no use for somebody who'll try to take anything away from...
...Christian Democratic Party, Richard Jaeger, 42, chairman of the Bundestag's Security Committee. Jaeger, whose distrust of generals is exceeded only by his scorn for Prussians, is by heritage and career a Bavarian (which, as regional patriotism goes among Germans, is something like being a Texan). Jaeger regards it as his everlasting misfortune that, when he was born, his parents happened to be in Berlin, deep in the heart of Prussia. "The course Germany took under Prussia's leadership," he warned the Bundestag recently, his eyes flashing behind his rimless spectacles, "ended with blood, tears and catastrophe...
...Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...
William Goyen is bound by ties of good fellowships: the Southwest Review Literary Fellowship in 1948, Guggenheim in 1951 and 1952, the McMurray Award for the best first novel by a Texan, The House of Breath, in 1950. His latest work has two qualities that are likely to pluck at a patron's purse strings:1) it is clearly not written in the hope of making any money; 2) it is so unclearly written and hard to read that some people may conclude that it must...
Author Goyen is nettled when people confuse him with the lunatic fringe of highbrow Dixie. He insists he is a true Texan whose "themes . . . have no affinity with the eccentricities of Southern personality or Gothic bizarreries." He has never lived in the Deep Southern states. "only passed through them on a train." Just the same, so susceptible an author should not take such a risk again...