Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upon a time there was a large-eared, drip-nosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school ... He lived in the Victorian, gabled, ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea captain with a bushy mustache. This man's name was Edward Hall Adkins. The Negroes called him Cap'n Hawley and the white folks called him Ned Hall. Ned could shoot very fine and whittle very good and in his eyes a small boy was never never very wrong...
...book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech by Khrushchev: ''We will abandon Communism when the shrimp learns to whistle.'' According to scientists shrimps are actually highly vocal (one, the Pistol Prawn, makes a noise like a cap pistol). Says one Grinioff character slyly at the novel's final party: "They whistle all the time-but only for each other...
Pink Hats for Wooing. Among the busiest hustlers were the twelve Burmese delegates, all in their native garb of longyi (skirt) and gaung baung (pink gauze cap). Said U Tin U, private businessman and government mining adviser: "I am here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from...
...another time, in another place, the jittery man in the grey flannel, red-trimmed suit might have been carted off to the booby hatch. He jerked, jiggled, tugged at his cap. He scratched and spat. In front of 61,207 at Yankee Stadium, and 40 million more on TV, he shuddered through two hours of spasms. But no one who watched the Yankees and the Braves in the last game of the World Series last week worried about the sanity of Selva Lewis Burdette Jr., 30. Throwing a sneaky assortment of curves, sinkers and screwballs, he made last year...
When the great day comes for Benjy to go to school. Mummy is so thrilled that she puts on her college cap and gown and skips along the sidewalk with Benjy, singing her college song. To his "School Mummy," as he calls his teacher. Benjy is unbearably good, too. He pledges allegiance to the flag twice, and he tells teacher things she might not otherwise know-like which kid did the whispering...