Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days the Assembly would convene in Monte Citorio palace. As its members drafted a constitution for the new Italian republic, a tapestried legend on the wall would recall Italy's last king: PHARAO...
Next door is a paneled office filled with leather divans. There sits Curran, his hat cocked over one eye, his feet usually cocked up on the elegant, modernistic desk...
...tractors were lined up, Indian file. Around one tractor and the "one-way cultivator" hitched to it, a crowd of 300 farmers, implement makers and Regina businessmen kept their eyes on the professor, a tall, husky man, clad in much-washed cotton trousers and shirt, a sweat-stained felt hat...
...Exeter's big game with Andover last week, the score was 2 to 2 in the ninth, when a storm broke. The last person to leave the Exeter stand, looking mightily disappointed at the tie score, was a man in a battered brown hat and a black Navy raincoat. He was Exeter's new principal, William Gurdon Saltonstall...
...nationwide department store chain was started last week. Merchandiser Walter Hoving (rhymes with roving), who had resigned his $135,000-a-year job as president of Lord & Taylor five months ago, made a deal to buy Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc. ("High Class but not High Hat...