Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welcome Arturo Cruz, 60, a former junta member and Ambassador to Washington, who was back home from self-imposed exile in the U.S. to run as an opposition candidate in the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for Nov. 4. But the jubilation was short-lived. No sooner had Cruz tossed his hat into the ring than he snatched it back again...
...chairman of the House Banking Committee, Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, objects to any Government agency committing itself to such an expensive bailout without getting congressional approval. Said St Germain: "If there are enough Continentals, then we can rest assured that Mr. Isaac will be standing here, hat in hand, asking for congressional appropriations to replenish the funds...
...against not only poverty and bigotry but tyranny as well. Owens' father was a sharecropper, his grandfather a slave. Carl's father and mother coach track. "Jesse was the greatest thing to me other than life's breath," says Bill Lewis, a fit and handsome man in a cowboy hat, who prizes a photograph of Owens posing with ten-year-old Carl and a cousin. Visiting a small meet, Owens told young Lewis to have fun, advice Carl...
...still possible to offend anyone except the ghost of Avery Brundage and a few no-show Iron Curtain sports commissars by announcing the obvious, that the defunct Olympic ideal of amateurism has always been humbug? The prohibition against pros was not high-minded in its origin, it was high-hat: a snobbish social exclusion of riding instructors, fencing masters and the like who sweated for their keep and were considered high-level servants. It was intended to ensure that those who participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals...
...REED, the erstwhile guitar hero of the '60s New York underground, has been getting some new sensations. These sensations may be old hat to normal people, but for Reed, the acceptance of life as it comes and the discovery of simple, everyday pleasures are two feelings to which he has never quite achieved. His struggle to fully possess these sensations--without succumbing to destructive side effects like alcoholism or worrying about over-whelming outside forces--gave his former albums, The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts, their tension and energy...