Word: hatless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reduce chlorofluorocarbons, the ingredient in aerosol sprays believed responsible for the depletion of the earth's ozone layer. Instead, he suggested the use of hats and sunglasses to guard against the lethal sunlight of an ozoneless atmosphere. Within hours, environmentalists and other Administration officials mercilessly attacked the proposal. Hodel, hatless and sans sunglasses, retreated by saying that the plan was only one of several options...
President Reagan once called him the "little dictator who went to Moscow," but when Daniel Ortega strolls around Managua with his two small sons in tow, he looks anything but the strongman. No tassles and epaulets for him, no holster around the waist, no stretch Mercedes. Hatless, in a black T shirt and khakis, Ortega could be any Latin American father except for the security contingent tailing him. Whether by design or by nature, he operates in public like a man of the people. When he travels by car, he is usually behind the wheel, and the car is usually...
...stepped from the Alitalia DC-10 jetliner Galileo Galilei last Friday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport and kissed the ground of Argentina, he faced a delicate diplomatic task. There to greet him, amid a thick crowd of government and church dignitaries, was President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, uniformed but hatless, reverently kneeling to kiss the Pontiffs ring. Later, while the Pope spoke, Galtieri gallantly held an umbrella over him, but the presence of the man who had ordered the invasion of the Falklands did not deter John Paul from hammering yet again at the message of peace and reconciliation...
...bigwigs. No interminable speeches. Marching in a procession of 100,000 workers down Warsaw's Krolewska Street last week, under a sea of red flags, was a group of men who used to gaze down on such manifestations from an elevated platform: the entire eleven-member Polish Politburo, hatless in spite of the light drizzle, occasionally smiling at the gaggle of photographers around them. Said one startled Polish journalist: "This is the greatest sign of renewal they could have given...
Despite a brilliant winter sun, the frigid wind is piercing. Presentation of wreaths keeps the President-hatless, dressed in a lightweight black topcoat-standing in the cold for nearly 15 minutes, and he is almost shaking by the tune he speaks briefly about the President "whose grace, compassion and earnest commitment is remembered in countless biographies, folk tales and poetry...