Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After remolding Ike's brass hat into a golden halo, and rocking the country to sleep with "Everything's fine, Daddy's here," Hagerty simply must have overcome his dislike for "wading through manure...
...Campobello offers the classic motif of external pressures, with F.D.R.'s imperious mother wanting her crippled son, by returning to Hyde Park, to put himself on the shelf, and with Louis McHenry Howe insisting that, as a man born for politics, he must still throw his own hat in the ring...
...Hat" by Name. Few countries have ever gone through so much ferment in so short a time as Turkey did in the years following the ouster of the Greeks and the end of the 600-year-old Turkish sultanate. Blindly bent on lifting his countrymen from Ottoman medievalism to Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script...
From Illinois last week came another case affecting freedom of dress and/or press. Overruling the Cook County Criminal court, which held that a picture of a girl tricked up in sunglasses, a hat and the Stars and Stripes might breach the peace, the state Supreme Court allowed that Modern Man magazine had not desecrated the flag and could not therefore be held guilty of intent to provoke a disturbance...
Last year nearby Medicine Hat (pop. 21,000) adopted the plan. Of ten students who got "laggard policy letters," five left school, but the rest began working so hard hat they earned a special commendation. Last month Sault Sainte Marie, Ont. announced that it, too, would follow the plan, and last week down in North Attleboro, Mass, letters went out to parents spelling out a new policy by which "intellectual loafers and bench warmers" are being dropped. At a time of rising costs and the growing teacher shortage, the plan has its appeal. Says Calgary's Superintendent Warren...