Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip had made no visible dent in the unity of the Western allies. British and French officialdom, in a rare vote of confidence in U.S. diplomatic skill, admiringly agreed that Washington had handled Mikoyan adroitly. In West Germany the U.S. had accomplished the diplomatic equivalent of the hat trick. While rock-hard Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rejoiced in his belief that the U.S. had "held firm" against Mikoyan's blandishments, the opposition Social Democratic Party was happily convinced that the U.S. had displayed "new flexibility." Combat of Paris reflected a common European sentiment: "Mikoyan interested, aroused and amused America...
...President Eisenhower's desk stood a domed metal gadget about half the size of a derby hat. Current flowing from it spun a small propeller. Named SNAP III (for System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power), the little gadget is an atomic battery small and light enough to go into a satellite and keep its instruments and radio voice going at least ten times as long as any chemical battery that the Russians or the U.S. have yet employed...
...host, aging (75) Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, was invited for a ride, no sooner got one foot on the little carriage step than the whole shebang lit off around a snowy track at full speed. Jaunty and chipper, he hung on, alighted at last with a gallant swoop of his hat, as Mrs. Eaton cooed: "You're the bravest man I've ever heard of." Eaton, who regards himself as a kind of missionary for Russian-U.S. coexistence (see BUSINESS), received the gift-a memento from Khrushchev of his visit to Russia last September-with the sentimental hope...
...Geisha Boy (Jerry Lewis; Paramount). Jerry Lewis stands glaring across the body of a sleeping blonde at a white rabbit. Jerry is a butterfingered magician who has all he can do to pull the rabbit out of a hat. How can he conceivably pull the thing out of a sleeping compartment without waking the dame (Marie McDonald) and rousing the rest of the passengers on the flight...
...four of the finest players amateur hockey fans have ever seen in this country--Igor Debonskii and Alexis Gury shev who each turned in the hat trick, Victor Priazhnikov who had two goals and an assist, and goalie Nicholas Puchkov--the Russians skated too fast, passed too accurately and stick-handled too well for the bewildered varsity...