Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally he graduated to plug-hat rank, spent a year as Minister to Australia, returned to China as Ambassador in February 1941, to be entrusted with the grave, back-breaking job of helping to put off Jap aggression. Soon, as Ambassador, he was superseded in influence by U.S. military missions in China...
...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
...names visible are Greek, Jewish, Russian, Slovak and run the whole gamut of countries. The proprietor's hat is at the right of the word "check...
...Mayor will probably be sent to North Africa as an administrator of conquered territory, eventually may be U.S. administrator of a liberated Italy. New Yorkers have found nine years of the Little Flower, scolding, sulking, racing to fires, waving his cowboy hat, chasing after bingo players, a little too strenuous. Italians, weary of their high officials' maestoso struttings, might take Butch's pizzicato to their hearts...
...Furs. "The doctors made their rounds in fur overcoats covered by white gowns. . . . The wounded often had to lie in bed fully dressed. [I] frequently had to do blood transfusions in a fur coat and a fur hat and keep [my] hands warm by putting them in warm water." Operating rooms in most hospitals were too cold to use and work on wounds had to be done in the wards...