Word: brims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson. Fortnight ago Alex Rose, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, paid a call at the White House and announced President Johnson's blessing for an L.B.J. hat-a lightweight model with a somewhat narrower brim than the five-gallon number the President likes to hand out to visitors...
Then he would rise from the piano to perform his Monkish dance. It is always the same. His feet stir in a soft shuffle, spinning him slowly in small circles. His head rolls back until hat brim meets collar, while with both hands he twists his goatee into a sharp black scabbard. His eyes are hooded with an abstract sleepiness, his lips are pursed in a meditative O. His cultists may crowd the room, but when he moves among them, no one risks speaking: he is absorbed in a fragile trance, and his three sidemen play on while he dances...
Billy's real life is crammed to the brim with that dreary banality which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
...former spa still reminded of its past by the faint odor of sulphur water, civic morale has been bolstered by the erection of the $350,000 headquarters of the Mount Clemens Federal Savings & Loan Association. Architects Meathe, Kessler & Associates of Grosse Pointe, designed a graceful concrete hat with upturned brim, decorated it with plastic skylights, and surrounded it with fountains and gardens...
...been too large for the military's needs. Some 1,700,000 young men were classified 1-A. On the average, no more than 100,000 of them were actually drafted each year. Yet the pool, fed by new 19-year-olds in ever-increasing numbers, will brim to overflowing in the next few years as the babies of the big population years become 1-A men. Even now, the average draftee's age is a relatively elderly 23. Hundreds of thousands of young men have found themselves forced to stall off permanent career decisions, sometimes drifting aimlessly...