Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeep or a helicopter, the Viet Cong private travels up to 40 miles a day through jungle on rubber-soled canvas shoes. His uniform is the same black calico shirt and trousers worn by all Vietnamese peasants; on his long, stringy hair he wears either a floppy jungle cap or a pith helmet covered with netting into which he thrusts camouflage appropriate to the terrain through which he is moving. His full field pack contains only a waterproof nylon sheet, a mosquito net, a hammock and some rope...
...Coiled Mind. On a horse, Jockey Arcaro was all coiled mind and muscle. Yet somehow he managed to look ill at ease. His long Cyrano nose protruded beyond his cap and goggles, as he rode in "ace-deuce" fashion with his right stirrup two inches higher than the left. He carried on a running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal...
...insisted that the Kirk honor the Westminster Confession. "What fellowship can there be between light and darkness?" a minister shouted. When the resolution passed and the Kirk ruled that its Moderator could visit the Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." The "if invited" clause that the Auld Kirk faction had demanded seemed likely to scotch the visit, since by Vatican protocol the Pope invites...
...reflected by the index, the British worker no longer wears a cap, but he sports a necktie. His wife has abandoned lisle hose for nylon and wears a girdle. Their children no more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with...
...purchase the boats was The Friends of Harvard Sail alumni group of former Univer after almost three years . Carter G. Ford '63, cap the Crimson sailing team, led drive to obtain a fleet...