Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...
Four "Puerto Rican Nationalists" from Eliot House--dressed in dungarees and straw hats--shot cap pistols and shouted "Free Puerto Rico" in the closing minutes of a History 61b lecture yesterday morning...
...playing something Arabian when Shiva herself appeared, wearing a mass of gauze and a seven-foot snake. Interest in the balcony heightened as the two undulated around the idol in time to the music. In the next row, the Girl Scout had buried her face in her green cap, whimpering with fear...
...with her sister Joan, a physically overripe 15year-old who flaunts her charms with the naturalness of a dolphin showing off alongside. Before this gets ironed out, it becomes plain that Author Taylor has made almost as close a study of the jealous wife as he has of his Cap Cod types. Best friends of the Willises are the Bensons, whose "detestation of each other had gone so far that they no longer got on each other's nerves but were, in fact, rather good friends...