Word: hatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muslim north and steamy Enugu in the old Biafra area of the Christian and animist south, the name of Nigeria's first popularly elected chief executive was announced. He is Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 54, a slight, soft-spoken veteran civil servant who wears the robes and beaded hat of the northern Hausa tribe and has been an outspoken Muslim nationalist. If all goes as planned, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, leader of the ruling Supreme Military Council, will turn power over to a government headed by Shagari...
...remembered that the country is nothing but a miraculous jell of metaphysical islands. Now and then, at inaugurations and wars and such, they act like a single nation. But, day in and out, home for a great many Americans is not only where you hang your hat and scratch where it itches, but the only place on earth worth living in. - Frank Trippett
...managed to do so while keeping a pretty low profile among students--despite his 6 ft. 8 in. height. Fox is the final arbiter of policies affecting undergraduate life--everything from how expensive your breakfast is to how spacious your suite is. Fox also wears another hat as chairman of the Administrative Board. Harvard's High Court for students who who are in trouble, academically or otherwise...
...Treasury, he was the technician who hopped from chair to chair around the table negotiating various devaluation figures with the delegates to a 1971 currency conference in Washington. And in 1973 he secretly shuttled among the main industrial nations themselves, flying 31,000 miles in five days, losing his hat in Tokyo and exhausting his supply of cheap cigars and clean shirts before returning with an agreement...
Conquering cinemaspace is getting to be old hat for Christopher Reeve. Hanging his cape in the telephone booth temporarily between Superman and the upcoming Superman II, Reeve does it again as an ordinary playwright in a romantic saga called Somewhere in Time...