Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation's best-known part-time farmer. After greeting his guests genially, Dwight Eisenhower approvingly examined the heifer, the gift of the Montgomery County (Md.) Fair, and asked how old she was. "Eight...
...borrowing was on Climax!, whose One Night Stand was a derivative howl from the hot jazz nights of the 1930s. Obeying the Musician's Law in dramatic writing (as immutable as the Newsman's Law, which requires a press card in every hat), the story was, of course, a tearjerker: a talented jazz pianist discovers that he has tuberculosis but wants to die beating out his rhythms in cellar joints instead of getting cured in a nice, clean sanatorium. The novelty lay in the fact that Bob Crosby and his Bobcats not only played their instruments but also...
...Wintle came out of the kitchen with a rush." Wintle threw him to the ground and, according to Nye, made him sign a ?1,000 check for his sister. "After wards, he made me go into another room, take off my trousers, and put on a paper hat. Then he took photographs...
...fewer than nine of the 17 men in Group A had histories of acting out their aggressive urges at the drop of a hat. Five others had disorders resembling schizophrenia. Fifteen had an attitude of rejection toward the expected child. The emotional symptoms that developed in this group were either severely neurotic or borderline psychotic; 15 became so anxious and irritable that their usefulness to the Air Force was impaired; and eight were depressed-two of them so severely that they attempted suicide. There were some signs of accident proneness, stomach upsets and hypochondria...
Caribbean Winters. For all their long season, the rough-and-ready Negro leagues could not keep Campy busy enough, and he took to spending his winters playing Caribbean baseball. Latin embellishments added much to the color, if not the caliber of the game. Puerto Rican fans passed the hat for him when he hit a pair of home runs; Campy returned the kindness by distributing a 100-lb. bag of potatoes in the slums. In Mexico he learned all the things that could happen to a baseball in thin mountain air. "You could hit a ball nine miles...