Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over at Wadsworth House, where Washington once slept, ghosts of American patriots wearing tricorn hat and cloak have not haunted the colonial building in at least 25 years...
...loated around the streets sometimes, leaned against a store front with my hat pushed back and one boot hooked back around the other--hell, you've probably seen me if you've ever been out this way--I've stood like that, looking nice and friendly and stupid, like I wouldn't piss if my pants were on fire. And all the time I'm laughing myself sick inside. Just watching the people...
After climbing three more, Kangchenjunga (28,169 ft.), Gasherbrum II (26,361 ft.) and Broad Peak (26,401 ft.), it seemed that he had exhausted the possibilities. Or had he? "It was in 1982," he says, "after my hat trick, after the first time I was able to climb three mountains in one season, that I understood it was easy, or at least it was possible, for one human being to climb all the highest mountains in the world, all 14 eight- thousanders, in a lifetime...
...rate. For most of the people there, "oldies dance music" means Mowtown, and most of the moves I saw were circa "Saturday Night Fever" instead of "Stomping at the Savoy," which didn't quite cut it. But even if you knew what to do, Lester Lanvine and his Hat Throwing Orchestra changed songs every three minutes, and they played the same damn songs over and over. By the ninth rendition of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In," I was ready to transfer to Yale...
Should it be a crime for her to smoke cigarettes? Should she leave the room if others do? What about drinking beer or diet soda or catching a cold because she callously decided to go outdoors without a hat...