Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idaho. Harriet ("Babe") Hansen, who at 50 is an experienced rancher, ex-sergeant in the WAC, forest ranger, and wilderness guide, won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Boise County. Said sturdy "Babe," who wears a 10-gallon hat, reportedly can pick the eye out of a grouse at 100 yds., and has shot 75 mountain lions: "I think I'm qualified...
Furuhashi's father, in a wrinkled duck suit, panama hat and toothy grin, was exuberant over his son's triumphs but pessimistic about the meet as a whole. "America-san [Mister America] however very strong," he murmured. As it developed, he was right: the U.S. team swept the back- and breaststroke events, won the meet...
...pursuit, cure him of being progressive once & for all: "Have gone to live in sin for a week with Professor Lissom, back Tuesday lunch-your loving wife A." Uncle Giorgio thought the note would be enough, too, but it wasn't. After all, jealousy was bourgeois and old hat, and no true progressive would deny his wife her emotional and physical freedom. When he thought it over, Aquila was delighted to find that Anisetta was picking up modern behavior so fast...
...best when, in impressionistic, rhapsodic style, he told about his New York-"the great place of the western continent, the heart, the brain, the focus, the main spring, the pinnacle, the extremity, the no more beyond, of the New World ..." A tall, graceful young man in fashionable top hat and frock coat, Whitman took a stroll every day down Broadway to the Battery, in search of editorial inspiration. In his lapel was a fresh boutonniere, on his arm a dark and polished cane, in his roving eye a twinkle. He sniffed the clean air like a connoisseur sampling fine brandy...
...invasion of South Korea knocked such arguments into a cocked hat. The President reversed himself, announced what most military men-and plain common sense-would tell any American: Formosa in Red hands would be "a direct threat to the security of the Pacific area...