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...appointments have an odor of the payoff. James McCrocklin, new Under Secretary of HEW, is a former president of Southwest Texas State College, which boasts one really distinguished alumnus, named Johnson. The new Ambassador to Australia, Bill Crook, is known as a "good guy," but he is also a Texan. The fact is, not many Washingtonians-or Americans-really care now who gets the Johnson...
...meter races-four heats, two semifinals, the final, and a runoff for one berth in this week's Olympic trials-no fewer than ten competitors equaled Hary's time, and three were officially clocked at 9.9 sec. The record-breakers: Seattle's Charlie Greene, 23, Texan Jim Hines, 21, and Ronnie Ray Smith, a sophomore at California's San Jose State College. Disallowed because of a following 6.2-m.p.h. breeze (legal maximum: 4.473 m.p.h.) was a clocking of 9.8 sec. for Hines-who wound up losing to Greene in the final in the suddenly mediocre time...
Eight surgeons on four continents have now performed heart transplants, but the one who stepped most prominently last week from under the nonglare lights of his operating theater into the spotlight of world attention was a tall Texan. Denton Arthur Cooley, 47. The mere fact that Dr. Cooley did three heart transplants within five days was a notable achievement. To Cooley himself, this was incidental and to some extent accidental-the timing of transplants depends on having suitable donors and recipients available simultaneously. The operations, says Cooley, are technically less difficult than many other open-heart procedures, of which...
...students think the Faculty vetoed Shipman because he didn't fit in. Sims explained. "He's a Texan, large, a little clumsy, and he speaks with a drawl. He's not polished--everyone else around here is polished--but he's a good teacher and very receptive to students. He keeps his door open to students...
...news of John Kennedy's assassination touches them all-but very much in their own way. Freddy Thorne hears it over the radio in his dental office. "You hear that?" says Freddy. "Some crazy Texan. You may spit." A few minutes later, J.F.K. is dead, and Freddy thinks of canceling his party that night. "But I've bought the booze," he says...