Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British felt especially keenly the danger of taking a dollar loan without assurance that they could pay with exports to the U.S. Keynes had not come hat in hand, though he knew he would have to make concessions. It would require all his spirited, almost oratorical negotiator's skill to reach a ground that both Congress and the British Cabinet would find reasonable...
...tavern conference began on a strained, embarrassed note; soon tempers flared, voices grew loud. Finally, Howe boiled, told the union men to "get the hell out of here." Then he clamped his hat on his head, stomped away...
...become a Socorro County deputy sheriff one afternoon when five drunken cowboys castrated a Mexican while a peace officer stood idly nearby. Elfego believed the law should be as strong as the lawless. One day, after he was made a deputy, he arrested a cowboy who shot his hat off. Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough to fix some tortillas...
...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...
...boulevard Suchet in the fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox in the hall...