| 单词 | Texas |
| 例句 | “Yes, I will make sure everyone knows the Houston rally was your idea,” his mother says, barely paying attention, as she goes over her speech on the plane to Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It reminded him of a bronc some cowboy dared him to ride in his Texas League days. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Six other players on the defense would sign scholarships, with Oklahoma State, Tennessee, Houston, Baylor, and two with North Texas State. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “For Murder Capital U.S.A., it isn’t much—just a depressed oil town in an arid stretch of West Texas,” wrote Newsweek. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing some rich man get a little richer was something, and there wasn’t much else to do in East Texas on a Saturday night. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s 2020, and Texas is a battleground state for the first time in years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Something you gotta understand about Texas is that it’s freaking huge. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He is like the winning football coach in some down-on-its-luck Ohio or Texas town—a beacon, a sign that grand achievement is possible, albeit unlikely. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z There he was, stacking box fans in a square of sunlight wearing faded jeans, a short-sleeved white T-shirt, and the same Texas Rangers cap. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z This was where the Texas congress met, but only every other year, so they couldn’t cause too much damage. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “My husband’s niece and nephew from Texas,” she told him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “The video said he lived in Texas until he moved to Alabama. What city was he from again?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s four teams left in the state of Texas, and the Permian Panthers are one of those four,” Gaines softly told his players moments before it was time to take to the field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And kids in Ohio and Iowa and New York and Texas and California started using it, too. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For four years his force wandered through what are now Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, looking for gold and wrecking most everything it touched. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “In Texas. Though they’re not in San Antonio anymore. They were in Corpus Christi for a while. The last we heard they’d moved to Galveston.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But when the price dropped, the frantic search for oil in the Permian Basin, and all of Texas, quickly became much less attractive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Forget the thought of ever playing in Texas Stadium in the white suburb of Irving. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lee and Midland High bands both broke into “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We watch as drag queens every shape and size and color give it their all and leave everything they’ve got on that stage in this dingy little bar out in the middle of West Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It is for the few to know that in the great old days of Virginia there were three punishments for high crimes—death, exile to Texas, and imprisonment, in that order. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall silent aide from Texas, T. J. Goree, had curled up in a bedroll, always near, to be used at a moment’s notice. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Careful checks of collateral became almost laughable and utterly contrary to the ultracompetitive, machismo attitude that pervaded the banking industry in Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also the first Mexican American from San Antonio to attend the University of Texas at Austin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They were a little different than the ones we used in Texas, but Henry helped me get what I needed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the same laws, the same policies that applied to blacks all over Texas and all over the South. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “So do we win an extra prize if we help you folks figure this thing out?” asked Angus Harper from Texas. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Another long pause, stretching from Michigan to Texas and back again, was finally broken by my next dangerous question. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z One hundred and ten years ago, Green Lake was the largest lake in Texas. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The Texas joke, on the other hand, is a revered institution, beloved and in many cases originating in Texas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In Texas, he’d steal a bottle of Maker’s from the liquor cabinet and get wasted with half the lacrosse team and maybe, afterward, climb through Liam’s window and hope to forget by morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We come from Texas, Lucy says and grins. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z So would just about every person in the state of Texas, where attitudes on the subject became quickly defined on the basis of whether you were black or white. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He moped around the Boston PIH office for a while, then went on a lecture tour, hitting small towns in Maine, Texas, Kansas, and Iowa, explaining the situation in Haiti to anyone who would listen. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The rich citrus orchards of the Rio Grande valley do not relate to the sagebrush grazing of South Texas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That would explain why Texas commissioner of education Kirby was there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought about transferring to North Texas State, or to Hawaii, but it got complicated and hopeless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom had decided to bring Grandma Caye to Texas, where she could get some much-needed medical attention and a few months of rest before returning home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In Hardin County, Texas, for example, opossums, armadillos, and an abundant raccoon population virtually disappeared after the chemical was laid down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All my brothers except for Harry bore the names of proud Texas heroes, many of whom had laid down their lives at the Alamo. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then in 1927, a professor of zoology in a Texas university, Dr. H. J. Muller, found that by exposing an organism to X-radiation, he could produce mutations in succeeding generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mom and her brother had each inherited half of the West Texas land that had been owned by their father. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In San Antonio, Texas, the final contest was a fresh and very complicated rebus puzzle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z If I keep coming back to the energy of Texas, it is because I am so aware of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As he continued to hold forth in his swampy, East Texas drawl about the numerous follies of the welfare state, I got up and left the table to avoid humiliating myself further. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “I finally got my period, like, two weeks after you left for Texas,” I said with some pride. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The tradition of the land is deep fixed in the Texas psyche. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There were days, however, particularly across the long, flat stretches of Texas, when nothing out-of-the- way happened. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother sends someone to pick up pizzas, and they take over the game room on the third floor with paper plates and bottles of Shiner shipped in from Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was definitely Geryon, who had tried to kill Percy two years ago in Texas. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In 1905, when Tom was twenty-four, he enlisted in the Texas Rangers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He looks bronzed and soft-mouthed and young, a Texas boy, the same kid he was when he left for DC. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This conviction is somewhat borne out in the restless movement of Texas capital. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To which her father replied, “Why shouldn’t she? Her grandfather married a Cherokee in Texas.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is connected to a sewage treatment plant on the edge of Laredo, Texas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There had been other disturbances earlier that summer, in South Carolina, Texas, and Washington, D.C. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She was the last thing anybody expected to rise up out of Texas in the midst of the Iraq War: a strawberry-blond, whip-smart Democrat with high heels, an unapologetic drawl, and a little biracial family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Jones Stadium, home of Texas Tech University, was virtually empty, and there was a mood of serenity and peace. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the beginning, on a dog-day Monday in the middle of August when the West Texas heat congealed in the sky, there were only the stirrings of dreams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have bypassed Texas about as easily as a space traveler can avoid the Milky Way. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder if the sun is shining in Texas,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Even in Texas, where nearly 40 percent of the nearly 1,400 modern-era executions in the United States had taken place, the death-sentencing rate had dropped dramatically, and the pace of executions had finally slowed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It wasn’t an irrational thought, for there was no profession in the state of Texas with worse job security than that of high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The discredited pathologist left Alabama but continues to serve as a practicing medical examiner in Texas. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His last uncle had just died and left him a large fortune consisting of property in the South and in Fort Worth, Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Texas wasn’t such a well-off place in those days. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Texas, Louie was in a theater, on a weekend pass. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Then Smiley crowded close up behind the driver’s seat to talk ugly about the rich-lookin’ stranger from Texas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The governor of Texas, Mark White, appointed Perot to head a committee on educational reform. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “This ticket says round trip, Marshall, Texas, to St. Louis, Missouri. Don’t you try to put one over on me.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So how is Olga? We didn’t keep in touch after I moved to Texas. I come back every once in a while. This is my cousin’s party.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At a rally in Texas, Nixon spoke of his own disappointment. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It had been a large snake—as many of the rattlers in eastern Texas seem to be—and a solid direct strike. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Like most passionate nations Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s been my best friend since I moved to Birmingham, Texas. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And she had the land in Texas, the source of her oil-lease royalties. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Poor whites from west Texas, her family was so badly off sometimes she’d come to school with no lunch and no money and we would split whatever I had brought along. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Texas is the only state that came into the Union by treaty. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I drove from Texas City,” she said, “I brought this with me.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom said with vast delight, ticking them off, “Lawrence, we got prisoners from the Fifteenth Alabama, the Forty- seventh Alabama, the Fourth and Fifth Texas. Man, we fought four Reb regiments!” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had grown up in West Texas, and it was obvious to her that high school football could galvanize a community and help keep it together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z David became a psychologist, earning a PhD in 1986 from Texas Tech University, and, eventually, becoming an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I formed an enthusiastic organization— The American Friends for Texas Secession. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the time the playoffs started, Texas Christian University, a Southwest Conference school, spoke to Ivory. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would it take you to come to Texas Stadium?” asked Carter coach Freddie James. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I recognized the move from a YouTube video of a Texas dance team. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Twice a week at dusk, Padre Leo grabs a large black duffel bag and pedals his bike over a bridge that spans the Rio Grande into Laredo, Texas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z After leaving Virginia, Chris drove south and then west across the flat Texas plains, through the heat of New Mexico and Arizona, and arrived at the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “No reason. There’s always a Miss Texas in the Top Ten. My daughters and I run a pool.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I told Mama then, I said: “Mama, that old yeller dog is going to make the biggest liar in Texas out of Little Arliss.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z In Dallas, Texas, for instance, the then Vice President and Mrs. Johnson were vulgarly insulted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She explained we’d be traveling back to Texas with our grandfather the next day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He flashed back to an encounter in Texas two years ago—a fight with a monstrous rancher who could only be killed if each of his three bodies was cut through simultaneously. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z People liked hearing that Texas was back, that they were tough and could take it and were up on their feet again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Texas sun pounds down on the crown of my head. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The entire Houston Cougar football staff has been in the process of putting together the top list of high school senior football players in Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In a small Texas town, they often did n’t have colored bathrooms or fountains either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Arlington game, that guy from the University of Texas was very impressed with his blocking. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A branch of the University of Texas was built and a new suburban-style mall opened, but the hearty, hair-trigger temperament of the place still remained intact. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To sweeten the deal, Zimmermann promised that Mexico would get Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico as a reward. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But then, without any explanation, Nathan found himself in Paris, Texas, training for the infantry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I feel like a hitchhiker caught in a hailstorm on a Texas highway,” President Johnson confided to his press secretary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The key to my mom’s house in Texas,” he says, winding a hand back into Henry’s hair. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Carter initially picked Texas Stadium as its home site. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They cross into Texas and drive for a while without stopping. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z After the funeral, Mom arranged to bring Grandpa Silas back to Texas with us, because she couldn’t bear to leave him alone in Belize. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The old man claimed he’d discovered the stopball one day down in the Texas League and that he was long gone from baseball when he perfected it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalgard was a tall man in his fifties, with metal-framed glasses, pale blue eyes, a shy manner, and a soft drawl that he had picked up in Texas at veterinary school. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Scornful, Snap says, “I don’t care about some Texas kid.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The foregoing investigation into the nature of the idea of Texas is put down as a prelude to my journeying across Texas with Charley in Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma Smith was a West Texas flapper who loved dancing and cussing and horses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Maria Isabel has a setback one morning before dawn as she is swimming across the Rio Grande into Texas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The state of Texas was soon to toughen its test requirements, and Fort Worth was in danger of having as many as seventy schools classified as failing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z That’s because much of the intervening area of Texas and the southern Great Plains was dry and unsuitable for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In high school he was admitted to a Texas magnet school for math and science, where students acquire college credit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We live in Texas, right on the Gulf, and it’s hot, but Biddy wearing that coat summer and winter, in class and out. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I determined to inspect two more sections and then call it a day—Texas and a sampling of the Deep South. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe that I am on the side of the American people and the state of Texas in terms of values!” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall man was the Texas Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer for the state. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z That summer, Lewis took her daughter on a trip to Liberty, Texas, a small city about forty miles from Houston, on the banks of the Trinity River. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes they talked about picking cotton in east Texas and about running whiskey into the cottonfields of dry counties. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer was obvious, as clear as night and day, black and white in Odessa, Texas, and he responded without the slightest hesitation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I haven't seen Mom all soft and weepy like this since my first trumpet recital back in Texas. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “All the journals from Maine to Texas seemed to strive with each other to see which could make our movement appear the most ridiculous,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote in her autobiography. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That she, a Texas schoolmarm, soon would be walking the streets of London and Paris still seemed an impossibility, yet Harry had promised it and made all the arrangements. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z An indifferent high-school student from an unstable family, he went to the University of Texas at Arlington on an athletic scholarship. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Henry had brought the twins to East Texas because his pastor told him to. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They theorized the remains might be the last traces of two Texas women, Minnie and Anna Williams, whom Chicago police had only recently learned were missing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The songs, the corridos became sad, and the meeting of the people from Texas with my forefathers was full of blood, murder, and tragedy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Various detours prolonged the eastward journey; he washed dishes in an Omaha restaurant, pumped gas at an Oklahoma garage, worked a month on a ranch in Texas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A vast amount of information on the biology of the screw- worm had been accumulated over the years by Agriculture Department scientists in Texas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I forgot what part of Texas she was from. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They told me that Pancho Villa had ridden through about five years earlier, after raiding some towns in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He got his doctorate from the University of Southern California and now teaches at the University of Texas School of Business Administration. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking of famous conflicts like Waco, Texas, or Ruby Ridge, Idaho,” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I would rather look a Texas rattlesnake in the eye. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, I found a broad-shouldered young man from rural Texas who had multiple injuries and whose body had been severely burned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the view of Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, the source of contagion was very likely not De Soto’s army but its ambulatory meat locker: his three hundred pigs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “This isn’t Texas. They have their own weather in Florida, and we all need to change our attitudes about it. People shouldn’t stand outside in this kind of rain. Just listen to that!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to be hanged inside the penitentiary, and White, though opposed to capital punishment, was given the grim task of overseeing the execution, much as his father had done in Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z List might reach all the way through Texas to someplace like Chicago. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Of all those trips, and all those schools, it was the University of Texas that had made the greatest impression. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In twenty-four years of representing Texas in the House and Senate, Johnson’s focus had always been on domestic policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When the bombing occurred, Hale had been in Texas, and he now saw the charred detritus of the house, which resembled a wreckage of war—“a horrible monument,” as one investigator called it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Seaborg joined with Joseph Kennedy, a newly appointed chemistry instructor with the gangly physique of a scarecrow and a gentle drawl that proclaimed his North Texas origins, and brought the plan to Ernest. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I could help them get to Arizona, or maybe West Texas, and after a while maybe the patrols won't bother searching for them anymore. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She didn’t think it was a good idea, because life in Texas was going along smoothly and she didn’t want to disrupt our routine. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Do well enough to transfer to the University of Texas. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z But I was beginning to see that things was different down there than they was in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had my doubts about flying all the way to Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z American education was faltering and Texas was no shining exception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But even more than that, he would get a ticket out of Texas and maybe make it to a big team like St. Louis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I. M. Terrell Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, is perched on a hillside and surrounded by interstate highways. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z On my way back to Texas, I suddenly remembered that during my two weeks in Scotland, the World Champions Centre had opened for business. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But during the high school all-star football game in July at the Astrodome between players from the north regions of Texas and ones from the south, he had felt an intense pain in his back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I was also thinking about Texas again, which I guess I do a lot when I’m stressed about election stuff. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Being a night game in the spring, it was just perfect Texas weather, 80 degrees or so. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He has been around the block, let me tell you, being born in South Africa and spending his youth here and there, partly even in Texas, from what I gather. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They came from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the bayou country of Louisiana, the Red River bottoms of Texas, and the flinty hills of the Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in Texas at a training class, and Nancy was alone with the children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been called a lot worse in Texas! Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Texas, it seemed that we always looked to get out of the sun so as not to get cooked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, some of the traffic signs were also sponsored by Texas Instruments, and the Pizza Hut billboard on the way over showed a steaming pizza, under the headline “Gigabites of Taste!” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Dude...you don’t honestly think Texas can go blue, do you? It’s one of the most backward states in the country.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Hale announced that he could prove positively that he had been in Texas at the time of the explosion, for he had received a telegram there and signed for it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The two bands once again broke into “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon afterward Holmes set out for Fort Worth, Texas, to take better advantage of Minnie Williams’s land. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They had moved next to Fort Worth, Texas, then to St. Louis, and on to Philadelphia, committing frauds along the way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They went to Texas A&M University in College Station, met at a student pub where Jim tended bar, and married three years later, in 1988. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since Nan’s favorite color was yellow, I’d put a great big honking yellow tag on Texas. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The former sheriff showed up, in the guise of an elderly, quiet cattleman from Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She’d been accepted into a nursing school in San Antonio, Texas, and her parents were doing well enough to pay for their children’s college education in the States. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that people like Birchites and certain Texas oil millionaires look with favor on the movement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The back has Clyde Alexander—1952 written in the top right corner, and what looks like an image of Texas cut from a map. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z One of them would soon be living in Texas; another, for a time, in Washington state. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I have the same uniform too, but I can’t march in Texas. I marched in some parades in France, though.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It lives in California now, but he drives it into Texas once a year for this weekend, leaves it in Austin so Alex and June can drive it in. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z With N. P. Thomas, a Ranger who was one of his closest friends, he was sent to deal with a plague of rascality in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Texas Instruments alone has had 225 U.S. patents awarded to its Indian operation. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z By the time it was over, the name of Gary Edwards, a seven- teen-year-old with a face that still looked boyish, would become a household word in the state of Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to Texas Tech University in Lubbock at the age of twenty-nine. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “He made it look like we were a bunch of West Texas hicks, fanatics,” said Allen of Perot. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Will, were you down there today when that man from Texas brought her a silver saddle?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When Mike was a junior at Permian, his brother took him to meet David McWilliams, the Texas head coach, and an assistant later took Mike into the field house and showed him the weight room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Both men happened to be in San Antonio, Texas, at the same time. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I got to get them sheets washed and ironed and then I got to get to this old chifforobe you done let go dry as Texas. And then we cooking—” “No learning lesson today, Minny.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Two of my sister’s kids from Mexico, or maybe they are Hermilio’s relations from Texas.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We had a lot of pine forests in East Texas then and the coffins were made of pine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He has a light accent—he’s not from Oregon or Nevada or Arizona or New Mexico or West Texas or any other Republic state. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z After Arkansas, I knew, we would drive down through Texas, past the hundreds of strip malls and armadillos baking on the side of the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z During their road trips across Texas together, his brother Joe Bill had always made a point of showing Mike the great football baronies of Texas—Texas A & M, the University of Texas, Baylor. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he’d sent all the way from Texas, black and white, spotted. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z From my reading, it seemed to me that Texas is emerging as a separate force and that the South is in the pain of labor with the nature of its future child still unknown. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I lingered on in my office at my parents’ Mansfield, Texas, farm. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Right then I could have tried to talk him into moving back to Texas, where he supposedly had some kind of ties, according to his passport, which turned out to be almost entirely false. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When people up north think of Texas, it’s Tabitha they think of. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z This is why people from Texas hate Washington elites. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It’s been at least a year since they last talked, but Liam’s Texas drawl is unmistakable and warm in Alex’s eardrum. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It’s a photo he recognizes as one of the ones they took for Pez in Texas, June and Henry lounging on the dock together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt, who became a colonel, brought together a group of fierce cowboys, American Indians, Texas Rangers, prospectors, cops, and elite athletes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He checked the directory and dialed a long-distance call through to the biggest beauty parlor in New Texas City. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The road trips to Irving and Abilene and San Angelo in that endless caravan of RVs and Suburbans and plain old sedans rising forth so proudly from the bowels of West Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The tradition of the frontier cattleman is as tenderly nurtured in Texas as is the hint of Norman blood in England. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Ashe was favoured to win his first-round match against Sherwood Stewart, a bearded, lanky American from Goose Creek, Texas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They stay overnight in Houston, and at midday, Enrique leaves Texas in a green van. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before long they would forget East Texas had ever happened to the three of them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But either way, by daylight I would be leaving Texas for the first time in my life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I moved to Texas, they’d come to visit our house in Columbus, Ohio, which was where I lived back then. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Unh-uh. Sam Houston, in Texas. I did basic there and then went right into medical school. I got assigned to the hospital in Devens, but it got boring. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I first got to America, I had gotten a call from some of John’s cousins who lived in Texas and who had heard through the Dinka grapevine that I was in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s summer. It’s like a hundred degrees in Texas.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “The Six Flags we have in Georgia opened in sixty-seven, and one of their premier rides was the Dahlonega Mine Train. Runaway’s the Texas version.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Not El Paso, Texas. The other one, in Illinois. It’s a few hours south. You know where you are now?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I gave each of my brothers a bookmark of a waving Texas flag that I’d inked and colored myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z One of the undercover operatives who was playing a Texas cattleman had slowly become close with Hale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “So, right now we can get over 270 with Texas or Nevada and Alaska combined. Richards has to get all three of those. So nobody is out of the game yet.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Later that day, the Johnson family headed home to Texas. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was a warm day, just a month or two after they came to East Texas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The dominance of football in Texas high schools had become the focus of raging debate all over the state in 1983. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All that has kept disaster away has been Maria Isabel’s oldest sister, who sends money from Texas, where she lives. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then, in 1953, a geneticist in Texas accidentally mixed the wrong liquid with HeLa and a few other cells, and it turned out to be a fortunate mistake. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In 1945, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas statute that limited the number of black jurors to exactly one per case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lewis usually came to East Texas about once a month, and he’d been by just last week on his way to stay for a spell with his woman in Tyler. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So tomorrow, with only twenty- seven dollars left of the money raised in Kansas City, they were heading west again, to Texas, to Nevada—“nowhere definite.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In Ohio and Pennsylvania and Alabama and Georgia and Texas and dozens of other states, it was the weekly event simply known as Friday Night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z West Texas had a history of staunch conservatism, not to mention a virulent dislike of government as practiced by Democrats. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a horse. You take it on back to Texas.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Folks in Cold Sassy will have a good time talkin’, but if you go on off to Texas, why, you won’t have to put up with nothin’ on account of it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Permian scored three touchdowns in the second half to defeat Port Arthur Jefferson 28-19 and win its third state championship in one of the great upsets in modern Texas high school history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember hearing that, depending on where you start, you could drive for a day and still be in Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade later, in December 1939, the acclaimed newspaper reporter Ernie Pyle stopped at La Tuna prison, near El Paso, Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “As soon as I saw that big yellow tag on the map of Texas, I figured you were up to something. Besides, I’ve overheard your Arletta Paisley enough to know where she’s from.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “There are no chained storefronts, traffic jams or pedestrians wandering around wearing Walkman headsets. The Texas League baseball park still has billboards on the outfield fence.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In east Texas, soil was poor and rain was in short supply. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This mother can carry a hundred pounds of Texas rice up- and downstairs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the unfortunate incident with Miss Texas he’d had to replace his stock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It used to be that girls would pin them to their shirts, but, like most things in Texas, they’ve only gotten bigger. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Harry listened to the story of her journey from Texas with an attentiveness that made her feel as if she were alone with him in the carriage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Texas has never in history gone this long without being called. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z No matter what, I knew I would always go back to Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched till the end when a golden girl from Texas won the shining crown and took her tearful walk amidst flashing bulbs. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z No one needs to be reminded of who got assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in the pastures and hills of Texas, but I had been to thirty-four states before I learned how to drive. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Next to it was another sign which declared that it was a violation of the Texas Penal Code to bring guns, explosives, weapons, drugs, or alcohol onto the premises. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z But the one thing that puts our little town on the map is that we’re home of the oldest beauty pageant in Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But never in a thousand years did anyone in Midland, in Odessa, in all of West Texas, ever think that the bank would crumble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She now lives in Texas and has five children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z From one perspective, the quickest way to understand Crane, Texas, was by thumbing through the ad section of the high school yearbook. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Texas, dead blackbirds, dickcissels, and meadowlarks were found at the nests, and many nests were deserted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, in neat rows, were the certificates of students who had passed the Fourth Grade Spring Benchmark Writing Test, a section of the Texas state exams. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe even bigger than that ranch they always talk about in Texas.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The oil production industry in West Texas had collapsed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hsu was the University of Texas geneticist whose earlier work with HeLa and other cells had made it possible to discover the correct number of human chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow and the cold weather told me it was time to head for Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Midland High band played “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” then “Come a Little Bit Closer” to the accompaniment of hundreds of little American flags bobbing up and down. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The secretary invited Reggie to speak at his second federal summit, and then heard him at regional summits in Florida, Texas, and Illinois. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Before bed Anna wrote home to her aunt in Texas to tell her the excellent news. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You voted instead for a woman and a family with Texas dirt under their shoes, who would lead you into four years of progress, of carrying on a legacy of hope and change. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And this, as I found, is as true in Texas as in Maine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She hesitated, briefly imagining a life in East Texas without Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her was born here, but me I’m Texas. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z While we were eating our breakfast, we were talking on the radio with our friends in Mission Control in Houston, Texas. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Texas is gray for five more seconds, before flooding beautiful, beautiful, unmistakable Lake LBJ blue. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My mom called out that my brother was on the phone from Texas and wanted to speak to me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s so perfectly Texas, and yet, completely beyond the stereotype. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He loved Mom’s Texas cousins, but all of them, five wild little girls and their grumpy mama, lived in a tiny little house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z The scene verified what we have all heard about fabulous Texas millionaires. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Links bought their first home fifteen years ago in what was then the master planned community of Clear Lake City, Texas, now a part of Houston. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She had come to Arizona from Texas when she was only a teenager and had been working at the park since forever. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Texans, they say, didn’t want to pay taxes and, second, Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829, and Texas, being part of Mexico, was required to free its slaves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Thank God Stuart’s in Texas because I doubt I could lie to him so easily. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He sent shipments of HeLa cells to researchers in Texas, India, New York, Amsterdam, and many places between. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I talked to Papa and he said, “There is nothing wrong with life in East Texas, but if you need to see the world, that’s fine too.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While Hermann Muller’s scientific work was ascending to its zenith in Texas, his personal life was falling apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Also on July 7 the Wells-Fargo agent in Midlothian, Texas, loaded a large trunk into the baggage car of a northbound train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She gave him a towel and pillowcase decorated with the insignia of Mojo and Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the barely visible reflection from the window glass, Scoob notices a white rectangle on the fridge beneath the Six Flags over Texas magnet G’ma bought, and whips around. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z One of the most spectacular fish kills of recent years occurred in the Colorado River below Austin, Texas, in 1961. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The pi-ana cinched it. Then two days later here come Mr. Texas. It like to kilt me, seein’ you was still in love with him.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Going off after the season to Nebraska, or Arkansas, or Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Harbottle homed in on my distracted state and called on me an inordinate number of times with questions on Texas history, which I could not answer, much to the class’s amusement. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Her husband was just as welcoming, possessing a magnanimous Texas spirit that seemed to override any political hard feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Always had a mouth the size of Texas.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then, after he had served only six and a half years, he was pardoned by the governor of Texas; Middleton had a girlfriend, and Lewis’s family believed that she had bribed authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “In the history of the pageant, there’s never not been a Miss Texas in the Top Ten,” Petra whispered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But I urge you all and all of the people of Texas and America, don’t leave the weightier matters undone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in 2016, when his mother squeezed out a victory in the general election, the bitterest sting was losing Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were a thousand kids in Texas who fit that description. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As big as it was, Texas felt too small. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was seawater in the middle of a Texas ranch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Later William Capp, an attorney with the Texas firm of Capp & Canty, said, “Anna had no property of her own, and such a change as described in her letter meant everything for her.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But it spilled out into the open, setting off a series of events that even by the hyperbolic standards of Texas became quite incredible. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But then a spot for a singer opened up at a club in Austin, Texas. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In the world of a small Texas town, where the four seasons of the year were football, basketball, track, and baseball, there was no greater condemnation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z You returned home to Bryan, Texas, to attend the funeral of your eighteen-month-old daughter. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This from the latest serial killer—destined for the chair, they say—who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Perry noticed them first — hitchhikers, a boy and an old man, both carrying homemade knapsacks, and despite the blowy weather, a gritty and bitter Texas wind, wearing only overalls and a thin denim shirt. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1920, Hermann Muller, the former student of Thomas Morgan’s, moved from New York to Texas to continue studying fly genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As much as I was ready to leave, and no matter what some folks thought of me, I knew my roots were in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The following week, the Texas Education Agency ruled that Carter should remain in the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even publishing houses have been added to the legitimate twentieth-century Texas spoil. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This trip is to San Antonio, Texas, and Southwest Airlines is going to sponsor this event as well. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I looked up to see a boy in a Texas Rangers hat watching me from across the street. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z While I was still in Texas, late in 1960, the incident most reported and pictured in the newspapers was the matriculation of a couple of tiny Negro children in a New Orleans school. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t have any lakes that big in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it totally ridiculous to think of this skinny, earnest kid wearing the orange and white of Texas next year? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve also gotten a call from an entrepreneur in Texas who wants to talk to you about the possibility of opening nationwide franchises.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Texas desert, snakes come out to hunt at night, when it is cooler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Within weeks, Louisiana and Texas had joined them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Man, you should come to Texas if you want to know about flat.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want it. I don’t want anything of yours—especially not a saddle that was an engagement present, for heaven’s sake! Take it back to Texas.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Boy howdy, I cain’t hardly wait to see that fancy Texas saddle on him!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The word Texas becomes a symbol to everyone in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was called a TI-99, made by Texas Instruments, and it was one of the first home computers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The fair had become so intensely compelling that one woman, Mrs. Lucille Rodney of Galveston, Texas, walked thirteen hundred miles along railroad tracks to reach it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There had been some talk about a former foundation fencer, moving from Texas back to New York, who would take the new job. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The three of us had gone over the summer, right before Jenna had left for Texas. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He told me about life in Texas and I told him more about West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Their job is to arrest immigrants who enter Texas illegally. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I remember one night flying from Dover, Delaware, to Houston, Texas. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My opening statement still holds—everything in Texas is likely to be canceled by something else. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z White then enlisted a stocky, garrulous, and blond-haired former Texas Ranger who, according to a superior, was best suited for situations “where there is any element of danger.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The two sides finally agreed to play the game at a neutral site in Austin at Memorial Stadium of the University of Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My wife had come from New York to join me, and we were invited to a Texas ranch for Thanksgiving. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was good soil and the wheat was good, but I missed the rolling hills of Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when technology succeeds in manufacturing a machine as big as Texas to do everything we recognize as human, it will still be, at best, a single individual. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The movie had played a role in Adams's exoneration, and he was released from Texas’s death row not long after its release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When they got to Texas, a man stole all their money. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It didn’t taste bad, but it ain’t like no Texas barbecue either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in San Antonio, Texas, I noticed a minor commotion in the hallway of the military hospital I was visiting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We have this annual thing at my dad’s lake house in Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We visited other unusual rock formations in Oregon, New Mexico, and Texas—and even spent one night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The number of small farms merged into collectives was a number about equal to the current population of Texas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Her voice hit him like a cool breeze—like that first cold front in Texas when the summer heat finally breaks and you start to believe things might get better. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But it did happen in the second game, in a stadium 530 miles east of Odessa in Marshall, Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To the boosters, that story was music to their ears, further confirmation that when the middle of December rolled around they would be on their way to Texas Stadium for the state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z What I am trying to say is that there is no physical or geographical unity in Texas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think they might be messing with our pretty. What do you think we should do, Miss Texas?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I note for only a second the Texas accent of the telephone operator or the Mississippi accent of the man who lives in the apartment below me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like fall: warm days and cool nights, a bit cooler than Texas, but it wasn’t too bad or nothing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When she wanted to leave Texas, Armstrong and Cater sent her, sight unseen, to Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Headlights tilted up mean there are people in the back, weighing down the vehicle, says Alexander D. Hernandez, a supervisor in Cotulla, Texas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A little after three thirty in the afternoon of January 22, Lyndon Johnson woke from a nap in the bedroom of his Texas ranch. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Apparently he had family in Texas, so he didn’t mind the trip. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And when the time came, maybe that would help them understand why they had to leave East Texas—and Henry—behind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He had been recruited by Texas A & M, and as he recalled all the false promises that were cooed into his ear he couldn’t help but give a little chuckle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z How-some-ever, Miss Love needs something to take her mind off of Mr. Texas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It travels all the way to the Texas border, mostly at night, when the dark will make it harder for him to be detected. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I knew he would get mad at me if I said, “Going north, anywheres out of Texas do just fine.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like those first days in East Texas, only worse. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Ladies and gentlemen, the very best football team in the state of Texas!” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He got heavily recruited and ended up going to the University of Texas in 1973 when the legendary Darrell Royal was still the coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some of our colleagues seem to have gone seriously wrong,” lamented Thomas F. Lynch of Texas A&M in the Review of Archaeology in 2001. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Texas was home, but 1 didn’t feel so welcome there when I got back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Life was good, but I was too used to working, and after a week I caught the train back to Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had met a prospector on the quayside, a New Dane from the country of Texas, and this man had a balloon, of all things. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z So Texas now boasts the most expensive hole in the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z People call from the West Coast, from Texas, from Michigan and D.C. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman says: We have your son in Texas, but $1,200 is not enough. $1,700. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z To whites across the state of Texas, Dallas Carter was a nogood bunch of cheaters who didn’t deserve the honor of playing for a state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z You may not have heard of the rangers of the 1600s before, but you may know about the Texas Rangers baseball team. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Texas is a tea party compared to around here,” Granny complained. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But once you corner him, he’s the most dangerous animal that ever lived in Texas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1950s Wallerstein worked for a chain of movie theaters in Texas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Now, all these years later, my sister and I were reversing that journey and heading from Ohio to Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They guided me down through the Rio Bravo in the dead of night, from Mexico to Texas. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One day in 2001, I got a call from John’s relatives in Texas saying he had just arrived in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that she could hide it from Henry; he’d seen her put it in the back of the truck in San Antonio and then had handed it down to her again in East Texas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, but I wanted to see some snow. I never saw that in Texas.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Texas spoke again: “Okay, Miss Teen Dreamers, I know we’re all real flustered and everything. But we’re alive. And I think before anything else we need to pray to the one we love.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then the camera is zooming in on that marble, the blue becoming water, then land, then children in Africa and Texas and China and Spain and sometimes, New York City! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z All of my father’s brothers and sisters are scattered across the United States—Texas, Los Angeles, North Carolina, and Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Burger and other agents made inquiries and learned that Morrison was in Dallas, Texas, using the alias Lloyd Miller. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was a sweet little scam he was running—until he was arrested and sent to federal prison in Big Spring, Texas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He had moved to West Texas in 1949 from California when the Snyder boom was on and had settled two years later in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Scoob’s got his window down, and the fresh air gusting into his face as they gobble miles and miles of Texas open road clears his head in a way he doesn’t expect. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Imagine if every single man, woman, and child in Texas owned a farm—and then imagine that every single one of those farms was suddenly taken away by the government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I don’t know how to knit, and who need a sweater in Texas? Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Or compare the crack dealer’s odds to those of a death-row inmate in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He would say often, “I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the August night was sweetly cool and serene with just a wisp of West Texas wind. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And now he was here in that mystical place, the huge oval of Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas, with those smooth flanks of concrete curving to the sky. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it would be Florida or maybe Oklahoma or Texas or someplace altogether different. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z At the Region 3 Championships that year, I finished fourth all-around and first on vault, which qualified me for JO Nationals in Dallas, Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The rest of the land was taken by the National Forest and by the state which later sold it to white ranchers who came from Texas in the early 1900s. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I crouched down and scooped up a handful of Texas dirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z At Amarillo, I was able to go to a cafe and order foods that I knew, and I had my first Texas barbecue since forever. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Texas ranchers have become increasingly riled by immigrants who trespass. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His mom gets up to make her speech to thousands, and Alex thinks, Hell yeah, Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Kirby’s first “Pig Stand” was in Texas, but the chain soon thrived in Los Angeles, alongside coundess other food stands offering “curb service.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Back in Texas, my teammates at the gym crowded around me eagerly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A priest at a Texas shelter says they often bring pictures of themselves in their mothers’ arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Dukakis forces in Texas had thought they could win the state on the basis of the economy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe looked up, startled, and stopped playing abruptly in the middle of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had wire-rimmed glasses, a round, ruddy, pleasant face with a mustache, a light Texas drawl. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We could not go fast because of the ice, but we drove relentlessly, hardly glancing at the passing of Texas beside us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When Indian societies disintegrated from disease and mistreatment, forest invaded savanna in Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Texas hill country. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the United States, only Florida, eastern Texas, and the upper Midwest seem–so far–to be almost entirely immune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Writers facing the problem of Texas find themselves floundering in generalities, and I am no exception. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were fearless and relentlessly coached and from the time they were able to walk they had only one certain goal in their lives in Odessa, Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Shanon wanted to see us before we left for Texas, so we met up with her at the child protective services office in Columbus. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You know, there’s not a lot to do in West Texas,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the rice fields of eastern Texas, this practice has seriously reduced the populations of the fulvous tree duck, a tawny-colored, gooselike duck of the Gulf Coast. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There was this old bridge jus’ outside Waco, Texas, that everyone knowed was only a matter of time ’fore it went down. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Central Americans emerge from the Rio Grande in Texas after wading across. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The three of them are on a dingy-looking beach—definitely a Texas beach—with the water at their backs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z At one point Perot, believing his motives had been misinterpreted and hoping to convince people that improving education in Texas was not a mortal sin, contemplated coming to Odessa to speak. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Elliot Oxford and I started emailing and texting my last week in Texas, and...I think I like him.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Cars converged on Holcomb from half the counties in the state, and from Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She said that God works in mysterious ways, and it just so happened that she had inherited some land in Texas when Grandma died. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It looked mighty nice to a boy from Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine, yeah, I’m nervous about going back to Texas.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I always felt like Texas claiming me as their son was, you know, kind of conditional.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z National Archives is in a warehouse, in Fort Worth, Texas, that is bigger than most airport hangars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nothing in Mississippi or Texas had prepared Anna for what she now experienced. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z HP and Texas Instruments had their of fices on the back nine, along the tenth hole. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “The Republicans have done nothing to help the Texas oilman for the last eight years,” said Clayton Williams, a Midland oilman. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Through various inquiries Holmes learned of Minnie’s inheritance and of the fact that it consisted largely of a parcel of property in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He hated it, as he hated the Texas plains, the Nevada desert; spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later, on November 22, he was assassinated, shot while riding in an open car in Dallas, Texas. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Max himself had a modest hit in Texas with “Moonlight on Emma,” a song about an ex-girlfriend who dumped him and moved to Hollywood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d hoped that Henry would notice that the twins’ jackets were too thin for East Texas, but two weeks had passed since the weather had turned really and truly cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In a Thanksgiving day rout of Texas A & M, he intercepted two passes that helped set up scores. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was late September, and Hurricane Rita had recently flooded Southern Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If Mama wanted Little Arliss to grow up to be the biggest liar in Texas, I guessed it wasn’t any of my business. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, Daddy came home from what he called a short trip, down to Texas and back. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I rode a lot when I was out in Texas. I haven’t seen any ladies riding in Cold Sassy except Mrs. Sheffield.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “She was stuck in Texas. We probably made her feel bad by telling her about our week-long sleepovers and all the movies we saw.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He talks slowly, with a slight Texas drawl. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were probably Los Angeles boys—they had picked up their hairstyles from the Pachucos, who were some of the young Mexican American boys and men in Texas and Los Angeles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “No, of course not. Didn’t she move to Texas? Where would I see her?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t know of anyone from Texas that had traveled as far as I had. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lyndon B. Johnson later put it, “Every school boy in Texas cuts his eye teeth on stories about the Texas Rangers. I wasn’t any exception.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Texas Red Oaks lined our road and dappled the hills, and the summer trill of bugs and sweet grass filled the air. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t exactly a surprise, considering Texas had been polling red, but they were all secretly holding out for the Lometa Longshot to take it in the end. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Which reminded him of an uncle of his that got mad- dog bit down in the piney woods of East Texas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And I thought I might postpone my retirement to Texas because of my concern for that child, and search for Dr. Grumman. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Welcome aboard the Texas and Southern Railroad,” as if he owned it himself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Seemed like it ust come and gone, at least in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It contains a county map of Texas with complex voter demographic breakdowns, matched up with the populations of children of undocumented immigrants, unregistered voters who are legal residents, voting patterns over the last twenty years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Their opponent the coming Saturday was a school from Dallas that had the most talent of any team in the state of Texas, perhaps the most talent of any team in the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never heard it called Texas roping before; he knew it as steer roping, because they used old stringy Mexican steers rather than more expensive cows or calves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The trinity blast was heard in El Paso, Texas, 150 miles from the explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be other offers, including a lavish proposition from the University of Texas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Arrangements were also made for chartered planes and buses to go to the game at Texas Stadium in Irving. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Recently, in Texas, an armed robber was electrocuted one month after his conviction; but in Louisiana, at the present writing, two rapists have been waiting for a record twelve years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Recently a white woman from Texas, who would quickly describe herself as a liberal, asked me about my hometown. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I told Mom I didn’t think Eric would lend me a million dollars to buy some land in Texas, and even if he would, I wouldn’t borrow it from him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When I got off at the edge of the Los Angeles yard, I heard tell that I wanted a train to Arizona to keep me in the right direction to Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the walking. We been walking since before Christmas. Seems to me we covered the better part of Texas.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he fades, and there we all are in Texas or Wyoming. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If God had sent this man all the way from Texas to barge in and tempt her, she sure had been found wanting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Have you looked at our polling on you in Texas? Since September?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I asked Mom why you made migas, since my library book said it was really from Texas, and you never lived in Texas. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Harold Puthoff, the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas, believes that a quantum sail would simply alter the properties of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He’s absolutely sure that guys who kissed a Prince of England and liked it don’t get elected to represent Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She said that he’d gone to private schools his entire life—schools filled with Dreamers—but he made friends wherever he went, in Louisiana and later in Texas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sure enough if he didn’t write a letter to the Texas Rangers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These shellfish inhabit the bottoms of bays and sounds and tidal rivers from New England to Texas and sheltered areas of the Pacific Coast. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still, maybe his message got through, because Adria and I always felt completely comfortable growing up in Spring and traveling around our home state, Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z During the day they used umbrellas to shield themselves from the West Texas sun. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a Texas football bonfire, but nobody was dancing around it, and nobody was celebrating anything. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And his neck is stiff from sleeping on what has to be Texas’s most uncomfortable couch. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Once you are in Texas it seems to take forever to get out, and some people never make it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarcity of deer in some areas of Texas is attributed to the screw-worm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’ve studied the Texas problem from many angles and for many years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Not for the first time, Leo was struck by how similar Greece was to his home state of Texas - the low hills, the scrubby trees, the drone of cicadas and the oppressive summer heat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “And stay on it, and just walk and walk past something called Houston Street, just like Houston, Texas.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Frankie, what happened to you?” he said in his Texas drawl. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I can’t imagine the time of year makes all that much difference when South Texas is only known to have two seasons: Hot as Balls and Not Quite as Hot as Balls. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z For Mom the move from Texas to Florida was a military operation, like the many moves she had made as a child. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You from the one in Kansas or Texas?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Galveston, Texas,” I say, because that was the answer to the last question. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Among other tendencies to be noted, Texas is a military nation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the talkative former Texas Ranger appeared, also presenting himself as a rancher. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I will represent to the best of my ability the . . . the . . . now, come on, Miss Texas!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Sure, Texas has all the famous landmarks that everyone’s heard of, but we have all these unknown gems, too. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “My dismount was the envy of stage mothers across Texas.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z For me, civilization was usually Houston, Texas, but I discovered that there were plenty of trips away from Houston, in addition to the jungle and desert. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s still true in the States. I mean, most women I know, their husband gets a job in Texas, say, well, Texas it’s going to be.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brent is really helping me. He grew up in his dad’s bait shop in a little Texas town like this one. He knows what it’s like to struggle, just like us.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I do not intend to dwell long on Texas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z There was a heartbeat in those stands that dotted the Friday nights of Texas and Oklahoma and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Florida and all of America like a galaxy of stars, a giant, lurking heartbeat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The project brought in Purdue engineers, crews of Texas roughnecks, and their families, who lived outside Léopoldville in a strange city called Little America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the plains of West Texas everyone knew how the Panthers routinely bludgeoned opponents from El Paso and Abilene and Amarillo. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The royal stables are, of course, elaborate and well-kept and about a million miles from the old ranches he’s seen out in the Texas panhandle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Since I’m always outside in the Texas sun, my skin is real dark. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “If the Texas Tornado takes the next medal, we’ll still be tied for first place.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Lyndon Johnson, from his ranch in Texas, called the leak of the Pentagon Papers “close to treason.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The land mass of Texas is rich in recoverable spoil. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not like the darkness, which was more complete than anything she had ever experienced—far darker, certainly, than any moonless night in Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her folks had come west from Amarillo, Texas, and had made a little money in the aircraft plants but not enough yet to get out of Cabrillo Homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up in Texas, their rooms were arranged in the same configuration, on either side of the hallway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Most of the Central Americans go to reunite with a parent, say counselors at a detention center in Texas where the INS houses the largest number of the unaccompanied children it catches. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He seems even more out of place—again just a Texas kid in Illinois. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z While Texas had been hot and dusty, Chicago was cool and smoky, full of trains and noise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The oil derricks were everywhere in East Texas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On June 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese troops crashed through the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon and raised their flag above the city, Lyndon Johnson lay in a Texas cemetery. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After a week in San Antonio, Texas, where the physical exam took place, I went to Houston for an interview. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before the Smith house blew up, Hale had told friends that he was heading out of town to attend the Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Girlfriend, in this part of Texas, if you a little bit black, you all black.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A nation mourns as it has been confirmed that he was shot and killed as his motorcade passed through Dallas, Texas, today. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z De la O was born in Texas, part of a large Mexican American family making a living working in the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Last night he had been talking about places he had been—about Texas and Oklahoma and the Carolinas. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Once they no longer needed her, what reason would she have to stay in East Texas? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If you asked me, it was like Texarkana, with one half in Texas and one half in Arkansas, except that here, one half was in America and one half was in Mexico. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was doing my Ph.D. at the University of Texas,” Price said. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It sat on the desert of west Texas, barren mountains rising behind. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z George had suffered brain damage in a car accident that knocked him unconscious late one night in Houston, Texas. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By the standards of the national press, Bush said virtually nothing to those gathered at the airport in Midland, Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The conductor probably just did that for style and not because Texarkana was both in Arkansas and Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone in Texas would think I had gone crazy once I started talking about blue snow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked how long was the train trip from Texas, spoke of the drought, and discussed the difference between Texas barbecue and the Georgia kind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z No, I’m from Texas, and doesn’t get it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To corroborate it, Agent Burger and a colleague had earlier traveled to Campbell, a town in northern Texas, where Ernest and Bryan’s aunt and uncle lived. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z East Texas clay mixes with plaster dust from the school; red sludge sucks at the soles of work boots. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He gave an example of a Texas family where one member had exposed nine others to MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Mom had told me to expect a check in early July for the lease on her Texas land. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In those days, the pine forests was all over East Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two operatives acting as cattlemen soon ingratiated themselves with William Hale, who considered them fellow Texas cowboys and who introduced them to many of the leading townsfolk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Arletta Paisley was from Hope Springs, Texas, and every word she said came out coated in a thick Texas drawl, sweet but with a little edge, like salted caramel. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But he doesn’t know if Texas still loves him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As the year turned, the cotton states began leaving the Union: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was born in the hill country of Texas to the daughter of a single mother and the son of Mexican immigrants, all of them dirt poor—luxury travel is still a luxury. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1901, the company had sent Miss Love and her best friend out to a big store in Texas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His younger brother J. C. “Doc” White was also a former Texas Ranger who had joined the bureau. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I even had a life-sized cardboard cutout of him back home in Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her parents had gotten divorced last year, and her dad had moved to Texas, so for the first time in three years, Jenna had spent the summer away from us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z |
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