Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern polling station of Koumea last week, the first voter of the day strode in stark naked except for a straw hat. In the south, nationalists regaled reporters with accusations of repeat voting by government supporters: the ink stamped on each voter's hand to prevent his voting twice apparently washed off easily. But when day was done, the unexpected news began to spread: Olympio's party had won 60% of the votes, and 31 out of 46 Assembly seats...
...last class day for President Lowell, often described as the "ablest confetti man in the Yard." The "lasting impression" of one participant was that of Lowell, "his hat in his hand, confetti in his thin, gray hair, watching the merry makers leave the stadium. Finally, as if reluctant to leave himself, he turned and followed the crowd out of the giant athletic field...
...there style of report by United Press President Frank Bartholomew about how SAC's bombers had been launched "not once, not twice, but many times," toward "an enemy target," before recall by SAC's Fail Safe safety procedures (see next page). The story was old hat, but its timing was right for Gromyko to latch onto. Said Gromyko: "The government of the U.S.S.R. demands an immediate end to the practice...
Editor Daniels, 55, was talking through his hat about the A.P. story, which was at worst, dully written, but he could speak with some authority about propaganda in the news. As Franklin Roosevelt's press secretary in 1945, he admitted last year he released only those pictures of F.D.R. at Yalta (two months before his death) that showed him "least marked by deadly haggard weariness...
...finds at Ife (pronounced Ee-fay), where antiquarians have been digging up terra cotta fragments for years, were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized...