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I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
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But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.
I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.
I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.
She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
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I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
I and Texas
A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.
I purposely refrained from adding the usual distinction of saying that he was from the State of Texas.
He also received a Master of Science degree from Texas A & I College and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Okla..
I regret that .... I wish I had gotten up then and seized the moment to set a tone, a tone that I had set in Texas, a positive and inclusive tone.
He said, “ I talked about the wall not only just dividing the U. S. and Mexico but the states of California, New Mexico and Texas.
Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.
* 1917 – World War I: The U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
Examples of this genre include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included The Apple, Xanadu, Annie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Victor Victoria, Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, Absolute Beginners, Evita and Everyone Says I Love You.
" Speaking at the opening of the Michael Reagan Center in Spring, Texas, October 7, 2005, Michael said, " At 8 years old, I thought I was going to hell.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography, I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was published posthumously, and also a short 1971 documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.
His Democratic opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, " Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy.
As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 99th Congress, S. 1702,, title II, December 12, 1985,, ) and Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (, title I, Sept. 29, 1987,, ) ( both often known as Gramm-Rudman ) were, according to U. S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, " the first binding constraint imposed on federal spending, and its spending caps have become part of every subsequent U. S. budget.
" Asked whether it was against the law in Texas to call a Marine a " sissy ," Lynde quipped, " I guess I ’ ll have to take the law into my own hands.
Houston chose not to resist, stating, " I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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