Word: hat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child can sure enough sing...
...Broz Tito. They renamed their school "the Red University of Karl Marx" and demanded an "end to socialist princes." Across town, where students had also occupied the Institute of Technology, posters urged that "workers and students unite against bureaucracy," and-the greatest slap of all-pictured the silken top hat of plutocracy with the party's red star...
...true mark of the '43 alumnus, however, was an Austrailan hat, with its brim folded up on one side and pinned with a button reading: "Meet the Old Campaigner, E.D.P. Kilroy...
...hour journey took eight hours. In one small town along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...
What followed was a combination of pluck, luck and medical skill. When passers-by mistook Piper's pleading moans for the babblings of a wino and ignored him, he pulled the crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went...