Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from behind him came General Somervell, as efficient an administrator as ever hung his hat in Washington, combining the best military directness with top-notch civilian experience as administrator of New York City's $10,000,000-a-month WPA projects. He was also an ambitious, professional fighting man who was already being mentioned for the next Army Chief of Staff...
...indicate the parts of the story still withheld, voluntarily. What was released was enough to show that the man-behind-the-story, Colonel George Alexander Drew, World War I hero and Conservative party leader in Ontario province, hadn't been talking through his hat. The charges he made were twofold: 1) that the 2,000 Canadian soldiers sent to Hong Kong and promptly killed or captured had been miserably undertrained and tragically underequipped; 2) that Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff, acting as a royal commission, had absolved those responsible...
Major Adams wound up his letter: "Now, here is the hat. Can you, will you, send us transcriptions? Help us give our boys the shows they used to hear at home. And that means the local shows as well as the big name shows. Leave your commercials in, if you like. We don't mind...
...next inning added two more runs as the rampage continued. After the opposition had registered three times in the bottom half of the fifth, the Harvard stick-swingers roared back with single runs in the fifth and sixth, and in the seventh again turned the three run "hat trick" on hits by Fitzgibbons, Heath, and Harvey...
...stepped from her automobile, the Queen, wearing a wide-brimmed white hat, received a tremendous ovation from the audience that had gathered to welcome...