when do we find out who won for texas senate
The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us


The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us is the debut full-length album by American rock band Beach Slang, released on October 30, 2015, through Polyvinyl Record Co. and Big Scary Monsters in Europe. "The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us" received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a "weighted average" rating out of 100 from selected independent ratings and reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a Metascore of 78 out of 100, based
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Extreme Prejudice (film)


to them and wipes them out. Then we cut to a meeting room at the Pentagon, where we find out it was all a top secret experiment to find out how far Americans can be pushed before they fight back." The film was to be made in October 1976 in Texas, but Milius instead decided to make "Big Wednesday". In 1982 the project was in the hands of Walter Hill. He assigned Larry Gross to do some work on the script before the latter did work on "48 Hours"
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Shark!


, for once, the hero is really the heavy, the heavy is the girl, there's another heavy, and you find out in the end they're all heavies." He elaborated, saying he liked "doing a story about four amoral characters... to show not only a double cross on a double cross but when we think we know who the heavy is, we find out the real heavy behind it all is the girl... I have the hero not only allow her to die, but he shrugs it
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Damadola airstrike


down. Also on 15 January, US politicians expressed regret over the deaths caused by the attack but said the airstrike was justified. "It's terrible when innocent people are killed; we regret that," said US Senator John McCain. "We apologize, but I can't tell you that we wouldn't do the same thing again. We have to do what we think is necessary to take out al Qaeda, particularly the top operatives. This guy has been more visible than Osama bin Laden lately." Senator
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Gary M. Polland


: "We ran a strong campaign based on our common conservative philosophy. We faced an incumbent [state representative] who was the darling of the Austin lobby. We were outspent at least two-to--one ..." Janek was reelected in 2004 and 2006. Polland won the support of many well-known Texas and national Republicans in his state Senate bid including former presidential contender Steve Forbes, the publisher from New Jersey, former Texas Secretary of State George Strake, Jr., former Vice President Dan Quayle, Virginia Republican
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1988 United States Senate election in Texas


The 1988 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 8, 1988. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election to a fourth term, defeating Republican Representative Beau Boulter. Bentsen easily won the Democratic nomination for another term, while Boulter came through a run-off in the Republican primary defeating Wes Gilbreath. After being nominated for the senate Bentsen was chosen by Michael Dukakis as his vice-presidential running mate and therefore ran for both the Senate and the vice-presidency at the same time. Bentsen
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Lyndon B. Johnson


sought a third term in the U.S. Senate. According to Robert Caro, "On November 8, 1960, Lyndon Johnson won election for both the vice presidency of the United States, on the Kennedy–Johnson ticket, and for a third term as senator (he had Texas law changed to allow him to run for both offices). When he won the vice presidency, he made arrangements to resign from the Senate, as he was required to do under federal law, as soon as it convened on January 3,
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IRS targeting controversy


the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure that they are removed from the IRS and the word goes out that this is unacceptable." There were rallies by members of the Tea Party in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, as well as across the country protesting selective targeting by the IRS of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. U.S. Senator John Cornyn of Texas released a video titled "A Culture of Intimidation" and a website called "IRS targeting Texans" with multiple stories
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CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory


trained get wiped out." Carbajal claimed that Morales said, "Well, we took care of that SOB, didn't we?" Morales is alleged to have once told friends, "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch, and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard", presumably referring to the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas and to the later assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 1968. Morales is alleged to
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2015 AAA Texas 500


that momentum and go into Phoenix and hope for another solid day there.” Joey Logano, who qualified fourth, said while he doesn't "think we are bad in race trim...I do think we have a little bit of work to do there, so I am anxious to get at that tomorrow and get to work on it and find a little bit more speed for Sunday." Erik Jones, who qualified sixth driving in place of the suspended Matt Kenseth, said that his qualifying run was "a really
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2010 Badakhshan massacre


investigation to find out who had. "We shall inform you of the results when it is concluded. We regret these killings and strongly assert that this is not the work of the Taliban who will never do harm to genuine aid workers… as soon as we manage to apprehend those responsible for this act, we shall subject them to whatever punishment our laws prescribe." Dirk Frans, executive director of the IAM in Kabul, doubted whether the local Taliban were behind the attack, in contrast to a statement by U.S. Secretary
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External validity


will produce responses that may not match the behavior of people who are actually in the same situation. We cannot depend on people's predictions about what they would do in a hypothetical situation; we can only find out what people will really do when we construct a situation that triggers the same psychological processes as occur in the real world. Social psychologists study the way in which people in general are susceptible to social influence. Several experiments have documented an interesting, unexpected example of social influence, whereby the mere knowledge that others
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1988 United States Senate elections


-off in the Republican primary defeating Wes Gilbreath. After being nominated for the senate Bentsen was chosen by Michael Dukakis as his vice-presidential running mate and therefore ran for both the Senate and the vice-presidency at the same time. Bentsen was always the favorite for the senate election and won with 59.2% of the vote, compared to 40% for Boulter. As of 2017, this was the last time a Democrat won a United States Senate election in Texas. In the Democratic primary Democratic senator Lloyd Bentsen defeated
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Dan Patrick (politician)


. ... An energetic, passionate conservative to lead the Senate." At the candidate forum, Patrick described education as a key issue in his campaign because of the 25 percent statewide high school drop-out rate, rising to 40 to 50 percent in the inner cities. He stated that "we do not have a future in the state of Texas if we have half of the next adult population – majority being Hispanic – don't have a high school degree." Patrick said that as lieutenant governor, he would work
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For Whom the Bell Tolls


. They will revolt against the government when they see that they are threatened, exactly as the fascists have done here,' Primitivo said. poem'It is possible.' 'Then you will have to fight in your country as we fight here.' 'Yes, we will have to fight.' 'But are there not many fascists in your country?' 'There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.'” In the same conversation Robert Jordan is
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Samuel Rhoads Fisher


Texas Free" wrote that "when Mr. Fisher died, Richard Ellis, who was president of the convention which declared Texas independent of Mexico, said from the floor of the Senate: 'In the death of Rhodes Fisher the Republic has lost one of its wisest defenders. He was a man of poise even midst times of stress and excitement. Well do some of us remember his cool and deliberate consideration of our acts at Old Washington, March, 1836; how his voice of caution rang out as men of zeal vied
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2018 Kansas State Wildcats football team


are for cold temperatures. “We have won two in a row and have a little momentum going,” K-State running back Alex Barnes said. “Iowa State is going to be a tough game. It’s going to be another cold game, too. It’s a night game. It’s all lined up for us to do pretty good. We just have to go out there and do it.” Iowa State's loss at Texas Saturday brought an end to the Cyclones' hopes for a spot
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Modern Vintage


to find out who we had become as a band, and in order to do that, what we did is we went back and looked at all of the records that had inspired us over the years — Queen, ELO, Elton John, and Bowie and all of those artists. And when you look at their careers, they were all very song-based; all of those records were very song-based, very performance-based. And that's the spirit in which we wanted 'Modern Vintage' to
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Dave Treen


who served as John McKeithen's former campaign manager. Campaigning for Treen was U.S. Senator John Tower of Texas; at the Shreveport Convention Center he said, "We are not here as Republicans. We are not here as Democrats. We are here as citizens who have aspirations for our country." Tower said that his backing for Treen was based on the candidate's "character, enormous ability, his sense of what is right, and his complete dedication to the sovereign state." Treen reached out to African Americans,
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Unbreakable (Birds of Tokyo song)


squinting through the bright light of what seemed like a long and twisted tunnel. Only when we truly get kicked down do we learn what we're made of. Through the rebuild, reflection and remains we find out who and what we are. We live on. We love more. We let go." The official music video for "Unbreakable" was directed by Matt Sav and released on 11 October 2018. The clip follows the escapades of a young couple, portrayed by Sophia Natale and Birds Of Tokyo frontman Ian
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Kuznets curve


of the data used such as serial dependence or stochastic trends in time series and few tests of model adequacy have been carried out or presented. However, one of the main purposes of doing econometrics is to test which apparent relationships ... are valid and which are spurious correlations". He states his unequivocal finding: "When we do take such statistics into account and use appropriate techniques we find that the EKC does not exist (Perman and Stern 2003). Instead, we get a more realistic view of the effect of economic
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Sam Winchester


Sam and Amelia fall in love and even buy a house together in Kermit, Texas. They later find out that her husband Don, who she had believed was killed in action, was actually still alive. Sam wants to stay with Amelia, but ultimately decides to leave and give her the opportunity to reconnect with Don. In the season premiere "We Need to Talk About Kevin", Sam runs into Dean and learns that Dean had just escaped from Purgatory; upon learning about what Sam had been doing the past year
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Fermi paradox


"In which case, the evolution of creatures like us, with hands and fire and all that sort of thing, may be rare in the galaxy. In which case, when we do build starships and head out there, perhaps we’ll find lots and lots of life worlds, but they’re all like Polynesia. We’ll find lots and lots of intelligent lifeforms out there, but they’re all dolphins, whales, squids, who could never build their own starships. What a perfect universe for us to be
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Big Bad John


the Jimmy Dean song "PT-109", referring to John F. Kennedy. Political candidates have run ads that parody Big Bad John, retaining the music while substituting lyrics that support their particular political bids. In Texas Senator John Cornyn's 2008 parody, he presented himself as a maverick politician, seeking a return to the Senate to fight to set things right. "You see I'm from Texas and we do things quick / And the way this place [the Senate] is run is about to make me sick",
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Perry E. Thurston Jr.


declaring, "I will be a candidate for attorney general in November 2014. I look at the attorney general's position as the people's attorney, and I think that we need, Florida can do better. I think we need an attorney general who's going to focus on health care needs of Florida citizens, not necessarily some national agenda." Thurston, however, is also a candidate for the Florida Senate in 2016, when State Senator Chris Smith is term-limited. When asked about how his Senate candidacy
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Mike Cross (politician)


East Baton Rouge Parish. Tom Ed McHugh won the position in a general election runoff against Dumas, who was attempting a comeback for a fifth term at the age of seventy-two. Cross won a special election in 1981 upon the removal from office of state Senator Gaston Gerald of Greenwell Springs, who was convicted of extortion of $25,000 from a contractor. Gerald, in his third consecutive Senate term, continued to draw legislative pay when he was imprisoned in a federal installation in Texas. The Senate finally voted 33-
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List of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre characters


He appears in the comics "Cain and Abel" being the son of Henrietta and Adam Hewitt. In the comics, Henrietta left to find food for her children, but was caught in some trouble and she lost him. He was found and adopted by a normal family who renamed him Cain Warner. However, as he grew, he had a type of shared feeling with his twin brother, when hunting and doing other things. He eventually grew up to become a police officer, but after finding out who his family
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A Novel Romance


more uncomfortable, especially when Adi breaks up with Nate. The reason being money and his lost job. Meanwhile, Jenny is leaving town for a wedding and Buddy refuses to go with her so he can stay behind and party with his best friend who is coming to town, LA hipster Sam Steele. Together, Buddy and Sam party, find girls, and consume an enormous amount of drugs. The next day we find out that Buddy has overdosed. He has died. And a strange girl called 911, we do
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Political positions of Hillary Clinton


to really have the kind of debate that needs to take place when a serious decision occurs like that." In a November 29, 2005 letter to her constituents, Senator Clinton said, "There are no quick and easy solutions to the long and drawn out conflict [the Bush] Administration triggered ... I do not believe that we should allow this to be an open-ended commitment without limits or end. Nor do I believe that we can or should pull out of Iraq immediately." On June 8, 2006
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Edgar E. Witt


While Witt was abroad, a vacancy occurred in his home district, Texas Senate, District 11. In absentia, his name was entered as a candidate in the special election, and he won. He served in the Texas Senate until 1930. Witt was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas twice, in 1930 and 1932. He served under Governors Ross S. Sterling and Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson, although Texas lieutenant governors do not run as a ticket with the governor. He ran for governor in 1934, but lost the
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Texas A&M Aggies football


.' Well, we're going to find out. That's the way we're going to do it. I can walk away and look myself in the mirror and say, 'We did it the right way.' After fourteen years as head coach of the Aggies, Slocum was asked to resign in 2002 following only the second non-winning season of his career. He immediately assumed a position as special adviser to Texas A&M president Robert Gates. A&M turned to Alabama head coach Dennis Franchione to replace the ousted
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Jose Menendez


Menendez headed the House Committee on Defense and Veterans' Affairs, which put him in contact with thousands of Texas veterans and provided a basis for his successful run thereafter for the Texas Senate. Menendez won election to a full term in the state Senate in the Democratic primary on March 1, 2016, when he defeated his former opponent, Trey Martinez Fischer, who, this time gave up the District 116 House seat, Fischer held, to run for the Senate. A number of lobbyists and political action committees which had supported
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June 2019 Istanbul mayoral election


to annul has caused an erosion to our most basic principles". Following this, referring to the implication made by a television program that he is a traitor, Davutoğlu responded that "the day will come when we will find out who protected the inheritance, and who betrayed it". Later, Davutoğlu said that "everything can be lost, and then won again. Power can be lost and then won again. There is no tomorrow for those who lose hope. Don't be afraid to talk". Meanwhile,
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Robert L. Duncan


Robert Lloyd Duncan (born August 5, 1953) is an American politician and the fourth chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, serving from 2014 to 2018. Duncan is a Republican, who has served in both houses of the Texas State Legislature. Duncan served in the Texas State Senate from the 28th District, centered about Lubbock, from 1996, when he won a special election, until his resignation in July 2014, when he was named chancellor of the Texas Tech system. He previously served in the Texas House of
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Political positions of Ted Cruz


the previous U.S. Senator from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison. After a deal was made to end the shutdown and extend the debt-ceiling deadline, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called Cruz's actions "not a smart play" and a "tactical error", and Cruz stated: "I would do anything, and I will continue to do anything I can, to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare. The test that matters... is are we doing anything for all the people that are getting hurt from Obamacare?
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Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act


, 2014 and it became . The Departments of Labor and Education issued draft regulations on how to carry out the law on April 16, 2015, considered thousands of comments, and issued the final regulations June 30, 2016, effective October 18, 2016. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said that "it's too hard to find a job. It's too hard to create a job. We have some differences of opinion on what to do about it, but I think we agree that matching job skills
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1988 United States Senate elections


vote. In July 1988 the Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis chose Lloyd Bentsen to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. As the Texas Democrats had already had their primary for senate candidate, Bentsen could not be replaced on the ballot. Bentsen was however able to run both for the Senate and for vice-president as Lyndon Johnson had gotten Texas law changed in 1960 to allow Johnson to do the same at the 1960 election. Lloyd Bentsen won the senate election by a clear margin over Beau Boulter, at the same time
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The Meanies


of the Meanies' tracks performed by Cockfight Shootout, Digger and the Pussycats, The Drones, Dan Kelly and You Am I. Kempson told Emery of "Beat Magazine", "The way we chose the bands was me finding out bands who loved the Meanies when they were younger... So Augie March are going to do a song because Glenn Richards was a Meanies fan when he was younger. Angie Hart is going to do a song because she used to come and see us, plus You Am I, Digger and the
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Death of a President (2006 film)


subject of presidential assassination, and that by doing so, was in bad taste. Gretchen Esell of the Texas Republican Party described the subject matter saying, "I find this shocking, I find it disturbing. I don't know if there are many people in America who would want to watch something like that." Hillary Clinton, then junior United States Senator from New York, told "The Journal News" of Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam counties at the annual New Castle Community Day in Chappaqua that, "I
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Arabian Queen


If we hadn’t turned up today, they would be hailing the favourite as the best since Frankel." When asked if she would stay further he said "It’s a certainty. Her dam got a mile-and-a-half and she won the Lancashire Oaks twice, and it took me three years to find out her best trip, I’ve been a bit quicker with this one." De Sousa said "I was doing my own fractions and not looking at the pacemaker. Arabian Queen isn’t
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Kay Bailey Hutchison


He would stay in the Senate until 2002.) The term-limits legislation never passed, and Hutchison said that she would not leave the Senate in the absence of such legislation, because doing so unilaterally would hurt Texas at the expense of other states in the seniority-driven institution. After the initial voting, most of the Barton and Fields voters switched to Hutchison, who won the runoff, 1,188,716 (67.3 percent) to 576,538 (32.7 percent). Lower turnout in the runoff resulted in a decrease in Krueger's
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Texas Longford


have been with someone like Duncan Button (Dean Aspen). When Texas finds out Jodie slept with Dodger, a columnist for "Soaplife" said that they could not blame her for being jealous. When Jodie kisses Texas they said it was hard to tell who was more shocked out of Texas and Dodger. A "Sunday Mercury" reporter said Texas and Jodie were "the strangest pairing since Darren Osborne and Suzanne Ashworth". "Soaplife's" columnist later said that Dodger, Texas and Jodie were caught up in a
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The Proud and Damned


' daughter, Mila, fall in love at first sight. They all ride into San Carlos, meet the governor, and rent a cabin outside of town. Will and Mila sneak out that night and make love. Mila's father is angry when he hears of this, and slices her cheek. When Will finds out about this, he shoots Mila's father. Being from famously rebellious Texas, Will's gang finds itself in sympathy with the San Carlos rebels. Will and his gang disobey Martinez's orders and do
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Airlines for America


ATA. Democratic lobbyist Jimmy Ryan said: "He’s so well liked by both Democrats and Republicans that for the ATA it’s a huge coup. The new challenge is figuring out how to get things done in a bipartisan manner and Nick is the guy who’s got the record to do it.” Senator Harry Reid said, "...Nick was a straight shooter and I appreciated that about him when he was at the White House. The ATA is fortunate to have a seasoned hand who understands the importance of finding
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Texas Senate


), and Dawn Buckingham (R). Pete Flores (R) joined the Texas Senate through a special election in 2018. New senators elected in the 2018 regular election included Angela Paxton (R), Beverly Powell (D), Nathan Johnson (D), and Pat Fallon (R). State Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, won the Senate District 6 special election on December 11, 2018, to replace Sylvia Garcia, who resigned after she won a seat in the United States House of Representatives
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Merrily We Live


important dinner party that evening for Senator Harlan (Paul Everton). That evening, through a contrived prank by Marion, Rawlins is accidentally invited to the important dinner party for Senator Harlan, who takes quite a liking to him, as does his daughter Minerva (Ann Dvorak). The next morning, the family finds Rawlins occupying the guest room. It is impossible to throw him out, as it is discovered that he is now a confidant of Senator Harlan and his daughter's target of affection. Jerry is consumed with
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Dropkick Murphys


to be the AC/DC of Celtic punk rock. The worst thing we can do to the local fans who have stuck with us is to all of a sudden try to be Fall Out Boy with bagpipes." Al Barr commented "We've always said we're like The Ramones or AC/DC with what we do; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But at the same time, we have to keep challenging ourselves. And if we find that tunes we're putting together for a
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Todd Staples


State Senator Dan Patrick, also of Houston. In fourth place was the outgoing commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, Jerry E. Patterson, a former state senator who had also run against Dewhurst for land commissioner in the 1998 Republican primary; Dewhurst won that round, but Patterson succeeded Dewhurst as land commissioner in 2002, when Dewhurst was first elected lieutenant governor. At a gathering in College Station in January 2014, Staples cited his experience at both the municipal and state levels of government and his support for the Texas constitutional amendment
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Hand to God (play)


a church “Somewhere in Texas where the country meets the city” a puppet stage is set up. From out of it pops a sock puppet who proceeds to talk about the beginning of mankind, where “we rutted as we chose careless in the night.” Then “some evil bastard” figured out many together could kill larger things, and women figured out more food meant less babies died. So humanity started camping and started making rules about doing bad things. Then “that same motherfucker who invented the group kill
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Wishbone formation


soon. At the assistant's suggestion, Royal and Bellard then had Worster start a step farther back from the quarterback. According to Bradley, "When we moved Worster back and James took over, we just caught fire." Texas won its next 30 games, leading to two national championships using the formation. In 1971 Royal showed the offense to Bear Bryant, who was so enamored with it that he installed it at Alabama complete with his own touches. Bellard later left Texas and – using the wishbone – guided Texas
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John C. Shields


(1886), attracted considerable attention by upholding convictions under the Edmunds Act of Mormons who practiced polygamy. Shields' time on the bench ended on June 7, 1886 when the United States Senate refused to confirm his nomination. The nomination had run into problems due to senatorial courtesy, with Senator Omar D. Conger of Michigan blocking it. The rejection was denounced by a variety of sources, with Senator Richard Coke of Texas saying, "I do not believe he has had proper treatment before the Senate" and calling for the
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Jeff Flake


2012, Flake stated that he may support it in the future. In 2013, Flake was a member of the "Gang of Eight"—a bipartisan group of eight senators (four Democrats and four Republicans)—who sponsored an immigration overhaul bill. Flake said of the group: "Pretty quickly we determined that everybody around that table wanted to do this. We weren't looking to score political points." The Senate passed the bill with 68 votes, but the bill failed in the House. When in November 2014, Obama announced on TV
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If Not Now, When? (album)


Ok, well what do we do now?' Obviously there are lots of things to do but I think we wanted to take some time, each of us personally, to explore a little bit and find out what the rest of the world was like." Bassist Ben Kenney stated, "Being with music is a creative thing and requires a certain amount of creativity - to just keep going back to that well over and over again, it doesn’t have a chance to replenish." During this time, the
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2010 Copiapó mining accident


Atacama desert. Following the collapse of the mine on 5 August, he had dispatched men to find out what had happened and see if escape was possible, but they could not find an exit route. "We were trying to find out what we could do and what we could not", said Urzúa. "Then we had to figure out the food." Urzúa tried to instill a philosophical acceptance of fate so they could accept their situation and move on to embrace the essential tasks of survival. On 23 August
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Oralman


the 2000s. However, they were able to find out something very unique in it. This was the situation where the Oralman form the 1990s do not really interact or better said at all do not interact with the Oralman people from the 2000s. Within the Oralman people, there are also internal differences among them, depending on where they came from. Here usually the differences lay mostly in their languages. Overall, they were able to find out the different identified several pairs of opposites who they see them as "We"
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Republican Leadership Conference


, Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, and Texas governor and former presidential candidate Rick Perry. Texas senator Ted Cruz narrowly won the 2014 straw poll, barely defeating Dr. Ben Carson. Senator Rand Paul came in a distant third, while former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Texas governor Rick Perry rounded out the top 5. The 2011 event featured various speakers, including Governors, Senators, state legislators, and authors. It was attended by several candidates, and potential candidates, for President of the United States, including Congresswoman
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Lindsey Graham 2016 presidential campaign


. However, once Bush and Florida Senator Marco Rubio dropped out, Graham endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz on March 17. Graham's endorsement of Cruz was unenthusiastic, comparing the choice between Cruz and Trump "like being shot or poisoned." After Cruz announced he was suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on May 3, 2016, Graham said: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it." On May 6, 2016, Graham announced he would not vote for either
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Oscar Underwood


Underwood twice won election to the United States Senate, in 1914 and 1920, and served there from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1927. He was Senate minority leader from 1920 to 1923. He opposed federal Prohibition as "an attempt to rob the states of their jurisdiction over police matters" and advocated local control of liquor regulation because "the improved conditions which we may naturally expect to find in the lives of the men and women who practice Temperance are not found to predominate in the state where Prohibition laws have
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John Carona


John Joseph Carona (born 14 December 1955) is a former Republican member of the Texas Senate from District 16 in Dallas County, Texas. First elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1990, Carona thereafter won a special election to the state Senate held on May 4, 1996 to succeed the Republican John N. Leedom, who resigned early in his last term. Carona remains a senator until January 2015. In the 2013 legislative session, Carona chaired the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce. He was also a member of
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John Tower


Senatorial District. In 1960, he was chosen by the state convention held in McAllen in Hidalgo County in south Texas, as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate against Lyndon Johnson. Two other Republicans mentioned for the senatorial nomination, Thad Hutcheson, who had sought Texas's other Senate seat in a special election in 1957, and Bruce Alger, the only Republican congressman from Texas at the time, were both uninterested. Johnson, the incumbent senator and famous nationwide as the Senate Majority Leader, won the election against Tower
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Sonora Webster Carver


was the most fun you could have and we just loved it so. We didn't want to give it up. Once you were on the horse, there really wasn't much to do but hold on. The horse was in charge." Arnette, who was 15 when she took her first horse dive, remarked in an interview that "Wherever we went, the S.P.C.A. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) was always snooping around, trying to find if we were doing anything that was cruel to
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Randy Pendleton


to serve a single term in the Texas State Senate. In 1972, Pendleton returned to the political arena to run, unsuccessfully, against the long-term incumbent Robert S. Calvert for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, who won the last of his two-year terms. Pendleton accused Calvert of having mishandled sales tax collections, a situation which led to declining state revenues. Two years later, Calvert withdrew from the Democratic primary when faced with the strong challenge of Bob Bullock, a former Texas Secretary of State who would serve
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Empire Burlesque


listener across the flatlands of Texas and time, Shepard contributes a conversational tone that hints at the very mundanity the song's characters are seeking to transcend." Session guitarist Ira Ingber recalls, "When we first recorded '[New Danville Girl],' we...made a cassette. And he took it out and started playing it. He came back the next day we were working and said, 'Yeah, a lot of people like this thing.' And then he didn't do anything with it. It
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Zephyr Wright


to find a bush and squat. When it comes time to eat, we can't go into restaurants. We have to eat out of a brown bag. And at night, Sammy sleeps in the front of the car with the steering wheel around his neck, while I sleep in the back. We are not going to do it again." When Johnson became vice president of the U.S., he sought Wright's opinion on matters such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She later was a witness
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Taner Edis


Edis wrote that we know how these are created, we know the techniques. "So we do not need to find the perpetrator of every crop circle to figure out that probably they all are human made. Many true believers remain who continue to think there is something paranormal — perhaps alien — about crop circles. But the circles we know all fall within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes. Nothing stands out as extraordinary." Edis was an editor of the book "Why Intelligent Design Fails",
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John E. Davis (Texas politician)


House seat, Republican Mike Jackson, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was elected in 1998 to the Texas Senate, District 11 seat in the Texas State Senate to succeed Jerry E. Patterson. Davis ran in the Republican primary for the position and with 39.6 percent of the vote was placed into a runoff election, which he won with 62 percent of the ballots cast. Davis then won the general election with 70.6 percent of the vote. Since 1998, he has had easy reelection contests, with his closest races
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Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football


academically and athletically. "We're the LSU; we're the Georgia, the Florida of Division I-AA", Delaware coach K.C. Keeler said in "American Football Monthly" in September 2004. "We have every resource. There's some people who have better resources than we do, but in general, the college campus we have is in one of the greatest college towns in America, and the academics ... we led the nation last year in out-of-state applications, more than Michigan or Texas
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United Farm Workers


melon crop ripened and time neared for the May harvest. In June, when beatings of two UFWOC supporters by Texas rangers surfaced, tempers flared. At the end of June as the harvest was ending, members of the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, including Senators Harrison Williams and Edward Kennedy, arrived in the lower Rio Grande Valley to hold hearings in Rio Grande City and Edinburg, Texas. The senators took their findings back to Washington as a report on pending legislation. Subsequently, the rangers left the area and the picketing
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Cesar Chavez Day


, and New Mexico and has been observed in California since 1995, in Texas since 2000 and in Colorado since 2003 as state holidays (optional in Texas and Colorado). As a senator, Barack Obama made a call in 2008 for a national holiday in Chavez's honor, saying: "Chavez left a legacy as an educator, environmentalist, and a civil rights leader. And his cause lives on. As farm workers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what
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List of whips in the Australian Senate


" Party) elected its first whip in 1968, when its membership increased from two to four. The party continued to do so until 1974, when the party lost all its seats at the double dissolution election. The party re-entered the Senate following the 2010 election, but did not have a whip as it only had one senator, who left the party in 2014. The Palmer United Party won three Senate seats at the 2013 election, the new senators taking their seats on 1 July 2014. Two of the
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Eastward Hoe


them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And, for my part, I would a hundred thousand of 'em were there, for we are all one countrymen now, ye know; and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here." (3.3.29-35). These lines particularly angered Sir James Murray and were consequently omitted from the first quarto publication. In Act 4, when Quicksilver inquires
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Ivory Tower (2010 film)


(Gonzales) returning home to Toronto from trip to Europe. While visiting his mother, he finds out that his brother, Thaddeus who likes to be called Thad (Tiga), is engaged to his ex-girlfriend Marsha (Peaches) & took Hershell's title as the best chess player having won the National chess tournament 4 years in a row. After dinner, Hershell gives a violin to Marsha for her violinstallations, only to find out she doesn't do them anymore. 5 years earlier when Marsha & Hershell were
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Kelly Hancock


His margin in Tarrant County was sufficient to overcome his loss in increasingly Democratic Dallas County. 2012 Texas Senate General Election Won with 58.37% of vote 2012 Texas Senate Republican Party Primary Election Won with 64.96% of vote Texas House District 91, 2010 General Election Won with 100.00% of vote Texas House District 91, 2010 Republican Party Primary Election Won with 75.36% of vote Texas House District 91, 2008 General Election Won with 61.27% of vote Texas House District 91, 2008 Republican Party Primary Election Won with 100.00% of
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Archaeology Today


6′5″). When Sir Robert brings up his discovery of Polynesian influences, the host asks about the Polynesians' stature; Sir Robert replies that it "has nothing to do with archaeology," whereupon the host takes an artifact and smashes it, enraging Kastner. Sir Robert punches the host, who swears revenge. We then see Sir Robert with his assistant Danielle (Carol Cleveland) digging in Egypt 1920. Sir Robert had been finding great artifacts and was very happy which caused him to break out in song. He finds
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Republican Party presidential primaries


. Businessman Donald Trump announced he was running for president in the summer of 2015 and dominated most Republican polling from that point on. He suffered an early upset in the Iowa caucuses, which were won by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio finishing an unexpectedly strong third, essentially narrowing the contest to a three-way race. Trump rebounded and carried the remainder of the early contests, and came out on top in the Super Tuesday contests. Cruz, however, won his home state of Texas, giving
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Wendy Davis (politician)


mind and announced a candidacy for Texas Governor instead of re-election to the State Senate. On June 25, 2013, Davis performed a filibuster to block Senate Bill 5, a proposal to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, require abortion clinics to meet the same standards that hospital-style surgical centers do, and mandate that a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. She attempted to hold the floor until midnight, when the Senate's special session ended, after which it would no longer
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List of Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate


President "pro tempore (often shortened to pro tem") of the Texas Senate is a largely honorary position, but is third in the line for the Governorship of Texas. If the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are both out of the state, the President "pro tem" is acting governor in their absence. At the beginning of each session, the Senate elects one member to serve as the President pro tempore when the Lieutenant Governor is absent or that office becomes vacant. A different member of the Senate (usually a
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Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?


Miley) and somewhat stalks her. Before the episode ended, Lilly finds out Miley is Hannah and keeps her secret. It is in the following episode, "Miley Get Your Gum," that we learn Hannah Montana has already been around for 2 years when we are first introduced to her. Oliver says, "Well there goes 2 years of my life," when Miley shows that she's really Hannah Montana. Every "Hannah Montana" episode title references a song; "Lilly, Do You Want to Know
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Eustaquio Díaz Vélez


indians as find anybody alone in the field, they undress him and steal. When they reach the estancias by necessity and but by force must give the fillies and mares to remain and to take to their tents, under the penalty of not doing so are threatened the owners and hated and exposed to arreen them the herds of the field. In one word we are the feudatories of them, either out of fear or because no one support force that could oppose them. They repeat that we are authorized to do all this
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1988 United States Senate election in Texas


$250,000. However Boulter won endorsements from many Texas Republican leaders, including the candidates who had come third and fourth in the March primary, as well as from anti-abortion groups. Boulter won the April run-off for the Republican nomination with just over 60% of the vote. In July 1988 the Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis chose Lloyd Bentsen to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. As the Texas Democrats had already had their primary for senate candidate, Bentsen could not be replaced on the ballot. Bentsen
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Tarrant County, Texas


1964, when the county voted for Democrat Lyndon Johnson, a Texas native. In 2016, Donald Trump won the county with 51.7% of the vote, the worst showing for a Republican since Bob Dole in 1996, and by a margin of 8.6%, the lowest since 1976. The first Republican elected to the State Senate from Tarrant County since Reconstruction was Betty Andujar in 1973. The county also leans Republican in races for the United States Senate, but in the 2018 election, Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke won it with
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Texas Senate, District 18


District 18 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Waller, Washington and Wharton counties, western portions of Fort Bend and Harris counties, and an eastern precinct of Nueces County in the U.S. state of Texas. The current Senator from District 18 is Republican Lois W. Kolkhorst, who won the seat in a special election in December 2014
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Robert Scurlark Moore


Bobby to find out when McNamara was supposed to go. A silly situation, which, as I say, we never fixed.” Moore completed 50 years of military service on November 13, 1967, an event memorialized by Senators John C. Stennis and Milton Young on the floor of the Senate. "He has served every Secretary of Defense and every Comptroller of Defense since the creation of the Department of Defense,” said Stennis. “He has acted as liaison with the Congress longer than any other individual. And he
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Eddie Woo


won the Australia's Local Hero Award at the Australian of the Year Awards. In March 2018, Woo was named a Top 10 Finalist in the Global Teacher Prize. In May 2019, Woo received an Honorary Fellowship from Western Sydney University. Woo identifies as a Christian, stating, "We talk about the fact that the universe is designed in this way and you can find all of these patterns; do you think that that's a coincidence? One of the things I love to point out is we call the universe
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Our Mutual Friend


the characters in "Our Mutual Friend" as realistic. The article asks: "Do men live by finding the bodies of the drowned, and landing them ashore 'with their pockets allus inside out' for the sake of the reward offered for their recovery? As far as we can make out, no. We have been at some trouble to inquire from men who should know; watermen, who have lived on the river nigh all their lives, if they have seen late at night a dark boat with a solitary
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Texas–Indian wars


protect the Indian lands from encroachment by settlers and illegal traders. Houston wanted to do away with the cycle of rage and revenge that had spiraled out of control under Lamar. Under Houston's policies, Texas Rangers were authorized to punish severely any infractions by the Indians, but they were never to initiate such conflict. When depredations occurred to either side, the troops were ordered to find and punish the actual perpetrators, rather than retaliating against innocent Indians simply because they were Indians. Houston set out to negotiate with the Indians.
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1988 United States Senate election in Texas


district, while Gilbreath was competing in his first election, but spent $500,000 on the primary. Wes Gilbreath led in the March primary with 36.7%, but as no candidate won a majority, went into a run-off election against Beau Boulter who came second with 30.5%. There were few policy differences between Boulter and Gilbreath, with both candidates being conservatives who opposed abortion and called for reduced government spending. Gilbreath spent about one million dollars of his money in his contest for the primary, while Boulter spent about
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Rockabilly


out and said, 'What are you doing?' We said, 'We don't know'. He said, 'Well, back up. Try to find a place to start, and do it again'. So we kinda talked it over and figured out a little bit what we were doin'. We ran it again, and of course Sam is listenin'. 'Bout the third or fourth time through, we just cut it. It was basically a rhythm record. It wasn't any great
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Red Berry (Texas politician)


and "fat cat Catto". In the heavily Democratic Texas of the era, Berry won the election with 54 percent of the vote. After serving his freshman term in the Texas House in the 57th Legislature, Berry was re-elected to the 58th and the 59th Legislatures. When Walter Richter did not seek re-election to his Texas Senate seat, Berry successfully ran for the District 19 seat in 1966. Berry was re-elected in 1968. While still a sitting senator, Berry succumbed to cancer on 24
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2012 United States Senate election in Texas


, for both the Democratic and Republican parties, with Paul Sadler and Ted Cruz winning, respectively. Cruz won the open seat. In an interview with "Texas Monthly" published in December 2007, incumbent senator Kay Bailey Hutchison stated that she would not seek re-election and might also resign from the Senate as early as 2009 to run for Governor of Texas. After the 2008 elections, Hutchison formed an exploratory committee to run for governor in 2010. State Republican Party Chairman Cathie Adams later called upon Hutchison to clarify when
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2006 Texas general election


Texas Senate seats and all 150 Texas House of Representatives seats are up for election in 2006. The senators and representatives elected in 2006 will serve in the Eightieth Texas Legislature, while the senators will also serve in the Eighty-first Texas Legislature. Fifteen of the sixteen elections for the Texas Senate are contested to some extent. In the District 3 race, Robert Nichols won his Republican primary and will be unopposed in the fall election. There will be at least five new members of the Senate. These current senators will not
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The Wachowskis


to stay out of the public eye. They feared losing their privacy and the ability to go to public places without being noticed and harassed as celebrities. Explaining her decision to appear at the HRC event, Lana said, There are some things we do for ourselves, but there are some things we do for others. I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn't find anyone like me in the world and it felt
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The Someloves


and what do we do? Let's walk around Times Square'. When we got back to the hotel, one of the hotel doorman asked 'Where have you been? You don't go out there this time of night, it's dangerous!'" - Dom Mariani In New York they saw Robyn Hitchcock in concert; in Washington, D.C. they met Tommy Keene and saw The Original Sins. They then headed to Easter's studio in Winston-Salem, where R.E.M. had recorded their first album, to find
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Laud Humphreys


we called 'participant observation'. True, today one could not do such research because there was no 'informed consent' but then again, in many cases, when doing research on deviant behavior, one will never get 'informed consent' so we miss out on a lot of important findings. He was a true pioneer and a hero to all of us in these fields." Humphreys' research materials, including detailed diagrams and maps of tearoom activity he observed, are housed in the collections at ONE National Gay
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Edna Harker Thomas


In 1934, the Senator and Mrs. Thomas traveled in Nazi Germany for ten weeks on a fact-finding mission sponsored by an Oberlander fellowship given to the Senator by the University of Utah. Thomas kept a diary of their trip in which she wrote, "We are doing just what President Roosevelt asked us to do, meet and talk with the educated people." In 1907, she married Elbert D. Thomas in the Salt Lake Temple. Edna Thomas died of a heart attack on April 29, 1942 in Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Chedworth Steps Out


it depicts the strange fact that it is in our homes we find our harshest critics. There is drama and comedy delightfully combined, when George Chedworth, reclaiming himself as a man, becomes at last the head of his house, and . . . 'steps out!" The part of Cecil Kellaway's youngest daughter was played by Jean Hatton, a young singer who was brought to the attention of Ken G. Hall after she won a Deanna Durbin talent quest. She was signed by Cinesound to a long-term contract
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2014 United States Senate election in Texas


The 2014 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate. Incumbent Republican senator and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn ran for re-election to a third term. Primary elections were held on March 4, 2014. The Democratic primary required a runoff election on May 27, 2014, to choose an opponent to Cornyn. David Alameel, who came in first in the primary, won the runoff and became his party's nominee. In February 2014,
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LGBT conservatism in the United States


's gender, religion, ethnic background or sexual orientation, was killed in committee by Texas Senate Republicans. Governor Bush was criticized for letting the hate crimes bill die in a Texas Senate committee. Bush spokesman Sullivan said the governor never took a position on the bill. According to Louvon Harris, sister of James Byrd, said that Bush's opposition to the bill reportedly revolved around the fact that it would cover gays and lesbians. The governor's office "contacted the family and asked if we would consider taking sexual orientation out
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Lois Kolkhorst


joining the Texas Senate, she served as president and CEO of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce. She also served seven terms in the Texas House representing House District 13, which included counties Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Fayette, Grimes, Lavaca, Washington. Kolkhorst represents the 18th District in the Texas Senate, a seat she won in 2014 in a special election in an election to choose a successor to Glenn Hegar, who had resigned to become Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. The district serves Victoria, Texas and stretches
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Texarkana Moonlight Murders


I was holding forth in the Arkansas police station, when a call came through that a neighbor had seen strange lights in the farmhouse. We sped to the scene and I hid behind a car while Police Chief Max Tackett and three other patrolmen approached the house. Chief Tackett yelled into the house that the place was surrounded and the Phantom might as well give up. Who do you suppose walked out? None other than Lone Wolf Gonzaullas of the Texas Rangers and a woman photographer from "Life" and "Time" magazines
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