Word: brims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly dry, the Indian government had drilled six wells and pumped them brim full...
...Goldwyn of Golf. Snead is a model of 4-H Club health and vigor; he never smokes, drinks only a rare beer, and spends more time sleeping than most athletes. He is the best-dressed golfer in the game: his snap-brim palmetto hats and neatly pressed slacks are Snead trademarks (in a recent inventory, Mrs. Snead counted 280 sport shirts and 36 straw hats...
...wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take off the fish, it is perhaps the most relaxing form of fishing in the world; Murchison likes it because it gives him time to think...
This year's trend-if such there ever is in women's hats-seemed to be toward bigger bonnets. Reported Vogue: "A sweeping new fashion to watch-and best watched from under the brim-[is] the wide-brimmed hat, famous for harboring the world's most becoming shadows...
Like a man trying to fill a glass of water to the brim without spilling a drop, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey last week turned in a neat performance with the national debt. The Treasury's recent offering of $2 billion in seven-year 2¾% bonds went so well that Humphrey permitted it to be oversold by $240 million. With the market for Government borrowings beginning to tighten up for the first time in many weeks, Humphrey did not know when he would be able to sell bonds at such a low rate again...