Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider yourself lucky. If you had entered Harvard during any of the last seven or so Septembers, you would have needed a hard hat to traverse the center of Harvard Square...
Unlike much of Maya art that celebrates or serves gods, priests and lords, some of the lively figurines found on the island of Jaina mirror the life of ordinary folk. One peasant woman jauntily waving a big conical hat will look strikingly familiar to anyone who has visited the wretchedly poor Maya villages in modern Yucatan...
...deal and said everyone would make more money if work did not have to be interrupted by raids. So the workers drew lots once a week to pick the five who would have to be shipped back to the Mexican border. Before the five victims left, though, the hat was passed for funds to help the unlucky five sneak back north across the border, a trip that usually started the next...
...John Boulting, 71, British filmmaker who with his twin (and surviving) brother Roy wrote, produced and directed more than 30 films, most of them comedies that poked satirical and iconoclastic fun at a panoply of British institutions: the armed forces (Private's Progress, 1955), diplomacy (Man in a Cocked Hat, 1958), labor unions (I'm All Right, Jack, 1959) and the Church of England (Heavens Above!, 1963); of lung cancer; in Warfield Dale, England. Many of the Boultings' best films featured a recurring cast of bumbling comic actors, including Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and, most notably, Peter Sellers...
...Eastwood. "Straight change-ups 71, hard curves 78, soft ones 73," he mutters in review. "Ninety-mile-per-hour fast balls the whole game long, and his best stuff is waiting at the end. I'm telling you, this kid is amazing." A mustachioed Cuban in a white straw hat, Brito is the Dodger scout who discovered 17-year-old Valenzuela seven springs ago in Mexico. He went there to observe a skinny infielder, but could not help noticing an ample lefthanded breaking-ball pitcher with more than a teenager's command. "Both these guys / seem to have been born...