Word: beret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kingmaker . . . Making the election a battle was the idea of a tempestuous female kingmaker: Enid Starkie, Fellow of Somerville College, a brilliant Rimbaud scholar who pub-crawls about Oxford in bright red slacks and beret while smoking cigars. In 1951 she proposed that the chair actually be occupied by a poet. Her candidate: Poet C. Day Lewis. At once, her archrival, tweedy Helen Gardner, Fellow of St. Hilda's College, now famed as an oddly prim defender of Lady Chatterley's Lover, entered Novelist (The Screwtape Letters) C. S. Lewis. In the ensuing battle of Lewis v. Lewis...
...Liberation junta, refused to dock at Recife until he was assured of supplies, fuel, and permission to sail off again. U.S. Rear Admiral Allen E. Smith Jr. boarded the Santa Maria to discuss the fate of the 42 U.S. passengers, was met by Galváo wearing a black beret, a khaki uniform with shoulder boards, and an armband in the green and red of Portugal's flag. Swashbuckling Galváo offered to transfer the passengers to the U.S. destroyers. High seas made the operation too dangerous, and Smith declined. The Santa Maria circled on, in and outside...
...appearance as in action, Che is the world's most unorthodox banker. Dressed in black beret, green battle tunic and paratrooper jump boots, he drives his own Ford Falcon from his seaside home to the National Bank each working day just in time to begin his normal office hours-3 p.m. to 6 a.m. In the back seat, two guards carry Tommy guns at the ready. In his 30-ft., deep-carpeted office, Che tosses his Luger onto the long, cluttered desk, calls in the two Chilean Marxists who are his main economic advisers, and buckles down to work...
...Pounds of Iron. In February 1928 Betancourt and his friends organized a week of student protest. An intense, curly-haired young man in black beret and spectacles, Betancourt delivered an impassioned anti-Gómez speech in a movie theater. Four days later he was thrown into a Gómez dungeon, clamped in 96 pounds of leg irons...