Word: akubra
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...were on the eve of the big cauldron-lighting. Hotel rooms were vacant, seats were unused at the opera, street prices were dropping for ping-pong prelims, angst was rising. "Some now claim we never should've done it," said the clerk at Gowings as he brushed my new Akubra bushman's hat. (You'll like it, honey. Really.) "Bloody 'ell," he said, "the sports 'aven't even begun! Look around; it's already been great for the country. Those who say 'Why are we doing this?' - tunnel vision, I call it. Just look at this city...
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