Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov is Teddy Roosevelt minus "T.R.'s" color. He is wide-browed, broad-shouldered, stocky. Almost alone among the Red leaders, he has retained the white collar and tie, the neat dark suit, the stiffly worn fedora. As a concession to his proletarian environment he sometimes wears a cap. But not even the cap can conceal his indisguisable middle-class look...
Last week in Minneapolis, his political retainers, bound by no such vows, looked at the calendar, saw Nebraska's Presidential primary had opened, promptly tossed into the ring the overseas khaki cap of Commander Stassen, thus making him the Republicans' first official Presidential candidate...
...Partisans appeared: a hard-faced, unshaven man with a red star sewn to his cap and a 16-year-old, lugging an Italian bandoleer and carbine. Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric Alps...
...Faith. With the commander and a priest De Luce stood before the altar of a Twelfth-Century church. Fascinated, he watched the commander make the sign of the cross with one hand, while holding his grey cap with its red star in his other. Outside, looking over the roofs at a red, white and blue Croatian flag with a red star in the white stripe, the priest said: "Tired of the Fascist yoke, the priests and people of our community began cooperating a year ago with the Partisans, furnishing them money and food. We considered it the only thing...
...adroit emphasis and inflection Franklin Roosevelt managed to turn the words of others into words of his own. And he left no doubt that he thought some U.S. newspapers have sunk to dismal depths. Not since the famed "dunce cap" and "chronic liar" press conferences had he delivered so hard a pitch...