Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than there are today, and that unemployment will be 3,000,000 or less. And may I say to my friend George Meany: If this isn't so, George, when the October figures come out, on the steps of the Labor Department I will eat that hat you said I was talking through...
...Mitchell was roundly applauded by an audience that might well have booed. Perhaps it was because he had spoken forthrightly. Or perhaps because a good many of the not-too-heavyhearted delegates were just as sure as Jim Mitchell that he would not have to eat his hat...
...Yellow Hat. The nation's sole defense over the centuries was the Three Precious Jewels of Tibetan Buddhism: the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Community. Power lay with the contending monks and noblemen. The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect. This was made official in 1557 when a Mongol khan gave the seal of rulership to the leading Yellow Hat monk and named him Dalai (Ocean of Wisdom) Lama. The fifth Dalai Lama is famous for building the vast Potala. He also felt the need to honor...
When "Ky" Ebright retires in June, he can look back on one of the most successful records in rowing. His crews have been national college champions six times, took Olympic titles in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Last week, attired in his traditional battered hat, stubby (5 ft. 6 in.) Ky Ebright was still bustling around the California boathouse on the Oakland Estuary, roaring instructions and encouragement as he drove his oarsmen through his last season...
...wearily that he has to get up early and go to work-there's a man he has to kill. Ma pipes up. "Promise me you'll wear rubbers, son." But Hope rides out to the duel instead, rigs his guns to fire when he tips his hat, drops his man, saves the policy, captures the villain, gets the girl (Rhonda Fleming). Conclusion: as the grateful townsfolk gather around and promise to erect a statue of the hero in the public square, Hope strikes a statuesque attitude, suddenly finds himself occupied by a passing flock of pigeons. Best...