Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed between a five-mile gantlet of Apoena's sentries. Finally they came to a halt before the hut where the chief lived with his three wives. Chavante braves, their bare bodies daubed with bright-hued clays, broke into a wild welcome dance. Apoena himself, in a breech clout and wooden earrings, stood before Mereiles, addressed him as "Imuman Uazassé" (Patient Father). Gravely, his men handed out gifts of bows & arrows, received in return knives, axes, aluminum pots. A rousing sport carnival followed. Then Apoena gave a banquet during which everybody ate roast deer and grasshoppers from great...
...sworn enemy of the church and kept up a running brawl with the priest. Peppone, a tough and able Communist who hadn't made his confession since 1918, set up trials for Don Camillo that ranged from swiping his clothes while he was in swimming to a clout on the head with a heavy stick...
Wrapping up the major leagues at the midseason mark, and taking a hefty clout at the rabbit-ball fanciers, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith had a ready explanation for the 1950 rash of home runs and high-scoring ball games: ". . . The real fault is not the lively ball but the deadly pitching...
...Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...