Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dirty lyin' skunk," the man in the black hat snarled. "Reach for them plowhandles an' I'll blow ya in half-pocket-high!" Such scenes of life in the wild but carefully censored West are familiar to every watcher of Zworykin's magic lamp these days. But how many western fans or foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas...
...Josef Braun. "The occupation rights of our Western friends in Berlin are our only protection. We must remain firm." An owlish man in the audience rose to criticize West Germany's Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer for talking to Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago. "It's wrong to go hat in hand to aggressors," agreed another man. "The Russians pursue their ends with absolute brutality...
Last week the Senate decided that it had heard enough. In his 40th hour on the stand, the Senate voted by two-thirds majority to cut him off. Declaring angrily that "this is the shame of Colombia when a man can't defend himself," Rojas clamped on his hat and left. Two days later, the verdict was read to the empty yellow chair reserved for the defendant. Next week the sentence will be handed down. Maximum penalty from the Senate: loss of political rights, e.g., the right to vote, and his pensions as former general and President. Upon review...
...mere $600 in cash and kind. Poor old Bart. He was born a century too soon. In 1959 he would have found, in nearly every parlor in the land, a box from which any man with enough strength to pull a hair trigger and enough chin to hold a hat string can apparently remove as much as a million dollars a year...
...this time, the visual language of the basic western had been written. The Good Guy wore a white hat, the Bad Guy wore a black hat. G.G. was clean-shaven, B.G. had 5 o'clock shadow, and an experienced horse fan could predict the depth of the villain's depravity by checking the length of his sideburns. The villain chased the hero from right to left, but when the hero was winning, he was naturally headed right (with his pistol hand closest to the camera). Anybody shot was assumed dead, unless the audience was notified to the contrary...