Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Councillor Sullivan said that he brought up the order because he saw students damage a car at the corner of Holyoke Street and Massachusetts Avenue during the riot. Also near the end of the melee, a student pushed Sullivan's hat off and attempted to strike him. Police arrested the attacker...
Although he once rebelled at western costumes, he now-in keeping with his mission-wears a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots at all times. He is also convinced that his public does not consider him an actor, but simply a friend-a sort^ of ^benign but colorful uncle whom it instinctively wants to invite for dinner...
...blue-eyed, wore the beard often seen among French troops. He saluted, told me that he was a French noncommissioned officer in charge of a small detachment of Vietnamese militia. Theoretically they are uniformed troops, but so far the uniform doesn't go much beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer of cement that will keep out water...
...Mexico City's airport one day last week, a mariachi band struck up Guadalajara. After a suitably dramatic pause, smiling Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer, wife of the 41st U.S. envoy to Mexico, appeared in the plane's doorway, slim in a dark suit and rust-colored hat. Ambassador William O'Dwyer followed her into the morning sunshine...
...trade secrets, his witches and warlocks are as conceivable as they are entertaining, and his heroine, both before & after, makes a lively minx. Gradually, however, the social and business life of witches is dulled by repetition; eventually the odd charm of boy-meets-witch slumps into the old hat of boy-finds-girl. Bell, Book and Candle lacks the resourceful twists that kept a fantasy like Blithe Spirit gay to the end; it moves in the opposite-and less rewarding-direction of a fantasy like Lady into...