Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night Harry Truman took off his Democrats' hat, picked up his social topper and escorted Bess to a full-dress reception in their honor at Washington's staid Congressional Club. There the President gave each one of the 500 guests a hearty handshake and a good word, beamed approvingly as the red-coated Marine orchestra played music from South Pacific, and took a disparaging sip of the nonalcoholic fruit punch...
...feel that what I have to say to you about that damn pipe, comic-opera boots and two-gallon hat will be of some political benefit . . . Honestly, Dan, do you think having your picture taken for public consumption with your feet up on a desk, with your hat on and that smudge pot in your mouth, adds any dignity to yourself or the important office of governor? . . . If you do, you should have stayed down in the sandhills of west Texas, where the boys come into town on a Saturday riding a mountain lion and using a live rattlesnake...
Against Big Government. At 53, the counselor decided to haul in his shingle and toss his hat once more into the political ring. Dubbing himself the "young guard," Austin defied his state's Republican machine, won a bitterly contested primary, thus assured his election as U.S. Senator. He went to Washington in 1931 and stayed on, winning two re-elections...
General Dwight Eisenhower stepped down on West Point's Stewart Field last week with a wave of his hat and a happy, tired grin. He had reason to smile. His 21-day tour of the NATO countries had been one of the great diplomatic triumphs of the free nations...
...quietly, facing the microphone. But energetic Anna Rosenberg, seated beside him, making her first appearance on Capitol Hill as Assistant Secretary of Defense, was never still. She toyed constantly with her glasses, fluttered papers, jangled her heavy charm bracelets, restlessly tucked her hair up under her sequin-studded pink hat...