Word: brims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to be in bed by 12 and up at 8. There'll be a gong to wake them. The main emphasis will be on learning about the places we visit." Elsa had only one indulgence to offer her serious-minded Achillonauts. "If you wear your hat with brim turned to the side, it will mean, 'Don't anybody speak to me. Just don't talk to me.' That way I think we will enjoy our 15 days together more...
...cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation's best-known part-time farmer. After greeting his guests genially, Dwight Eisenhower approvingly examined the heifer, the gift of the Montgomery County (Md.) Fair, and asked how old she was. "Eight or nine months...
...crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough clothing, except, perhaps, veteran Atom-Bomb Watcher Leonard. He was encased in layers of woolens. wearing a cowboy hat with a brim curled like a potato chip...
...Italian possession, the city of Trieste, has also been restored to the beloved fatherland." Off next morning for Trieste University, Ambassador Luce was greeted by the school's rector, who gave her a silver medal and a blue, scoop-shaped law student's hat with a fringed brim. The professors who picked the hat explained that it not only went well with her present job in international law but also matched the color of her ensemble...
...Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto his snap-brim hat. Ike invited Hoover to help with the steaks. Hoover seemed reluctant but finally complied when Ike gave him a long-handled fork and suggested: "Here, turn that fella over...