Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What He Wanted. But had it? Like his daddy, the late, loud Gene, who purposefully played the peckerwood, Hummon stood for 1) keeping "the Nigras" in their place, 2) keeping the wool-hat back-country control over the shoe-wearing big-city majority, 3) perpetuating in office the Talmadge dynasty, its heirs and assigns. That's what he wanted and that's what...
Tacho cocked a stained canvas hat over one eye and bellowed: "Yeah, we signed a treaty with Costa Rica. It just puts into writing everything that Nicaragua stands for anyway. No Nicaraguan has to sign a treaty to let the world know he's friends with his neighbors...
...Crimson's misery, Northeastern goalie Bob Howell and forwards Jim Bell and Jack Heavey were at their best. Howell made 36 saves and was especially in yielding in the third period. Bell, New England League high-scorer, tallied twice and heavey picked up a hat trick with three goals...
...very slow course through extremely flat country. There is endless talk, much of it in rather baffling broken English. Paul Muni's performance as the husband is studiously misconceived. Carol Stone is almost as much out of line, though more likable, as the girl. In every respect, old-hat playwriting has received a straw-hat production...
Ralph Budd had come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...