Word: hat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Straw Hat...
...swimming pool is empty except for a man who is drifting around in an inner tube, a martini glass in his hand, a party hat on his head. He is stoned. Into the pool plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day this is?" The drunk couldn't care less. Neddy and the blonde swim the length of the pool, get out and move on. Neddy Merrill is Burt Lancaster, the girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut...
...disappearance of a British colony has always been marked by the pomp and panoply of Britain's imperial traditions. A member of the royal family usually flew out to hand over the articles of independence. The governor general was on hand in his gold-braided uniform and cocked hat. Tribal dancers exploded in bare-breasted ecstasy. Then, promptly at midnight, bullnecked district officers wept openly as a bugle sounded and the Union Jack came down...
...nuclear sophisticates, the sketch was actually old hat. Today, almost any bright high school physics student understands the basic principles of the Nagasaki bomb...
...Catcher Jim Pagliaroni announced proudly-and it was not an insane thing to say. Pagliaroni's off-duty attire includes a leather World War I aviator's helmet and goggles. El Roy Face, the Pirates' No. 1 relief pitcher, struts around in a buccaneer's hat, complete with skull and crossbones. Starting Pitcher Steve Blass sometimes forgets he has a glove; last week he fielded two hot grounders barehanded and broke a bone. Outfielder Willie Stargell has trouble ordering in restaurants, because he speaks a language all his own: "Gospel bird" is fried chicken, and "jungle...