Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change were retreats in principle and in fact that could have highly important consequences. When they agreed to pull out of Austria, the Russians created the risk that new eagerness for freedom and new unrest will rise in the satellites, notably in neighboring Czechoslovakia and Hungary. When they appeared hat in hand in Belgrade, they showed that dissenters to Communist rule not only can survive but can flourish. These are highly dangerous chinks in the foundation of a system built upon terror and centralism...
...ancestor of present-day burlesque: High Priestess Lana, wearing as few beads as the Production Code, will permit, promenades along a runway above her audience, using every classic nuance of the stripteaser's hesitation walk while, as comedy relief, High Priest Louis Calhern lurches onstage in a funny hat and baggy costume, just like an oldtime Dutch comic at Minsky...
...Percy Wyndham Lewis. Such comments are usually accompanied by a slight quavering of the speaker's shoulders, as if these still bore the unhealed scars of a Wyndham Lewis drubbing. To many, the mere mention of Lewis' name evokes a hefty figure, dressed in a broad black hat and sweeping black coat, glaring sternly at humanity through formidable glasses. Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls Lewis sitting at a restaurant table back in 1919. "Remember...
...happily shares the fruits of the boom. Once slurred as the city of "100 churches and one bathtub," the capital now boasts new hotels, nightclubs, theaters. Around Quito, however, in the eroded Andean valleys that are overpopulated with 60% illiterate Indians, the economy is still sluggish. The Panama-hat industry, once a mainstay of the mountain Indians, is dying...
...bill creating the WAAC was passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed hat proved unreasonably difficult to photograph...