Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sequel, Streets of Laredo: " 'Most train robbers ain't smart, which is a lucky thing for the railroads,' Call said. 'Five smart train robbers could bust every railroad in this country.' 'This young Mexican is smart,' Brookshire said, but before he could elaborate, the wind lifted his hat right off his head...
...keep his hat on? Right away you know he's an Easterner, just as you understand that Call knows what he is talking about. Call is Captain * W.F. Call, onetime Texas Ranger, like Augustus McCrae, his partner in their Hat Creek outfit until McCrae died of stubbornness. Captain Call, getting old but tough as a boot, is a bounty hunter now. He still acts like a Ranger officer, however, and when the assignment comes to deal with the train robber Joey Garza, he wires Pea Eye, another old Ranger. He just assumes that Pea Eye will show...
...facing the sea just off the beach under a massive yau tree; she likes the shade, she said. Black Esprit sandals sat atop one another at her feet; she had pulled a flowered sun hat snugly on her head and thrown a new green canvas bag over an arm of her chair. She wore no jewelry. Nearby lay a copy of The Night Manager, John le Carre's new novel, closed on one dust-jacket flap at around page 300. Vacationing in Hawaii, just after her triumphant visit to Japan, just before a grueling few weeks in Washington, Hillary Rodham...
...Hat: There's something paradoxical about hats, which we are told to wear when it is very cold and when it is very cold and when it is very hot. A proper summer hat keeps the sun off your head, face and neck...
...joke continued, as this cartoon character--a pudgy, infantile man in a red hat that made him look like a blind, suntanned Santa Claus in shades--gained nationwide notoriety as the spiritual counselor to the World Trade Center bombers. Yet the sheik remained free in the wake of the bombing, even though, aside from his circumstantial involvement with the bombers, he was an illegal alien...