Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier was ready to meet him and talk peace any time, anywhere. By the time he left, Izzat was wearing the floppy khaki hat that is the badge of Israel's desert colonists, and saying he hoped he could come back again...
Winning tournaments was getting to be old hat with the long-legged, light-footed girl from the U.S. Ever since November she had traipsed across Europe and Asia, swapping shots with some of the best women tennists in the world. Of 16 tournaments she entered, she had reached the finals in all, won the cup and singles titles in thirteen.* When she overpowered Britain's Angela Mortimer (6-0, 12-10) in Paris last week to win her 13th, the French women's singles championship, Althea Gibson, 28, flew over the net like a happy starling...
...convict (Sterling Hayden), six men put the heist on a race track, but even though the tote is $2,000,000, the script fixes things so that crime does not pay. Nevertheless, the plot produces a gut-clenching suspense and plenty of surprises -pulled out of the hat alive and kicking...
...most of all, the apathy stems from the old-hat performances so far of Candidates Stevenson and Kefauver. Four years ago, recalled Miami News Columnist Bill Baggs, Stevenson "reminded many people of Woodrow Wilson. Not a few of the same people today say he reminds them of a man trying to remind them of Woodrow Wilson." Kefauver's act has gone equally stale. Wrote Baggs: "There is nothing special in shaking [his] hand any more. Everyone in the state has done it." Result: "We find there is more interest in the constable race in District Three than...
...Trumans were lodged in the Eisenhower Suite), he saw the ancient sights, guided by TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, filling in as host for ailing Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn...