Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vinnie has better luck. Despite a preference for slim, elegant men, she be friends a retired engineer from Tulsa who tours London in Western boots, broad brim hat and plastic raincoat. The cow boy and the kiddie-lit professor make an odd couple, but they have much to offer each other. She helps him research his ancestry; he proves to be an intelligent observer and, in due course, a sensitive lover...
...senior left wing, mired in a scoring slump, broke our with a hat trick and led the 14th-ranked Crimson (now 7-1-1) to its biggest upset of the year, a 3-1 thrashing of fifth-ranked Boston College...
...open elections, a government-inspired mob two weeks ago attacked about 50 Cruz supporters at a meeting in the city of Masaya. The opposition members were assaulted by a crowd of perhaps 4,000, many wielding machetes, before police came to the rescue. Some of the attackers later said hat they had been organized by middle-level Sandinistas: block committee leaders and union organizers...
...suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much of its detail is so close to Arlen's life that it is tempting to read the book as therapy or revenge. But it works, elegiacally and sometimes forcefully, as fiction...
...would prove to be his first published novel (Miguel Street) spontaneously occurred to him while he was doing freelance work for the British Broadcasting Corp. in London, not long after coming down from Oxford. Using BBC typewriter and paper, the young Naipaul wrote: "Every morning when he got up Hat would sit on the banister of his back verandah and shout across, 'What happening there, Bogart?' " This small scene came from Trinidad and Port of Spain and the crowded, colorful street where Naipaul spent part of his childhood. In later years, with an established and growing reputation, Naipaul...