Word: texans
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...self-described “old-time Texan,” Baldwin will return to his home state to preside over 7,000 staff members at the Health Sciences Center’s five schools. Texas Tech is home to a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in addition to schools of pharmacy, allied health sciences, nursing and medicine...
...native Spanish speaker and a fifth-generation Texan, Baldwin said that the chance to return to his Texas roots played a significant role in his acceptance of the university’s offer...
...onlyTexan to serve as his state's chief justice, attorney general and secretary of state, but John Hill was also its first Democrat in more than a century to lose an election for Governor (in 1978, to opponent William Clements). Hill was a Big Hat Texan with a gift for hyperbole whose last role was head of the Texas Lottery Commission...
...exotic. Spoon's sixth album, unfortunately titled Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (out July 10), has no sitars or harps, no qawwali singing or convoluted metanarratives. It's just 36 minutes of taut, minimalist rock played mostly on guitar and piano and sung by Britt Daniel, a reedy Texan with a dry, been-around-a-bit voice. It's exotic like Clint Eastwood--and just about as direct...
Even we urban dwellers have seen the signs. Neighbor kids gathered around a big live oak to watch a large rat snake hanging in the branches - rat snakes are a "good thing," one neighbor, a native Texan, assures everyone as the grownups shudder. Mosquitoes don't wait for dusk to come out and refilling the backyard bird feeder is like a trek in the Amazonian jungle, no need this year to keep the birdbath filled...