Word: bonneted
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...earned colleagues' respect for her "dodge-proof questions and barbed repartee at the press conferences of five Presidents. When F.D.R. once lamely admitted, "That wasn't much of an answer, was it?" Craig shot back, "No." Her hair in a bun under one of dozens of Easter-bonnet hats, she also queried officials in a come-out-and-fight soprano voice for many years on Meet the Press...
...brain-trusters decided to make the female detective a black; if they had thought of it, they probably would have asked Teresa Graves, who plays the title role in Get Christie Love! (Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), to improve the package by donning a war bonnet from time to time, thus touching base with another minority. We are spared this spectacle only because no one connected with this series seems to have been thinking about anything other than the main chance...
...Pope Paul Vl's usually sedate audiences became a papal powwow. Among a group of 250 Gaylord, Mich., Catholics visiting the Pontiff at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored a lot of our treaties." Paul...
...bootleg bonnet" is a black felt hat used to strain the fresh brew into a barrel. The term "100 proof was originally known as "gunpowder proof because the British found that whisky with about 50% alcohol, when mixed with gunpowder, would burn with a steady blue flame. Moonshining is not a thing of the past, either. As late as 1972, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms destroyed more than 2,000 illicit stills, and admits it barely scratched the surface of the trade...
Died. Georges Bonnet, 83, last important political survivor of the French Third Republic; in Paris. Bonnet was best known as an architect of the ill-fated Munich Pact with Hitler in 1938. Ambassador to the United States in 1937, he was a Cabinet Minister in no less than 18 of his country's governments between 1925 and 1939. Charges against Bonnet of collaborating with the Nazis as a member of the Vichy government were dropped in 1949. He returned from exile in Switzerland to serve for another twelve years in the National Assembly...