Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stickler for the proprieties. His native language had special forms to be spoken by men and women; for a man to use a female word when talking to other men was extremely bad manners. So Ishi masculinized all English words that sounded female to him. "Hat" became "hatna" and "sheep" became "sheepna," both of them proper enough words for any well-bred male Yahi...
Courtship involves frequent group horseplay, encounters on lonely mountain trails, and participation in wild fiestas. Picking up a girl at a Vicos fiesta is simple. Steal her hat and she chases you through the milling crowd; head for the nearest isolated cornfield where you may, if you wish, return her hat. When a couple becomes "serious," the girl will come--with parental permission--to live in the boy's home...
...words from the movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other, and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." Then nearly 200 of them announced their resignations from the Democratic Party and pledged their allegiance to the G.O.P. in Texas...
...Marie-Thėrėse Walter, and rarely has he endowed a figure with such regality as in the second portrait of her. The Minotaur is all passion, sad and fierce at once, almost like the master himself, and in the portrait of the woman with the dramatic hat, all conventions of beauty and ugliness are swept aside, as if the artist were intent only in crashing through the skin to get a look inside. In all four paintings the palette glows and roars: the image is not just there-it explodes...
...Western team approaches the rope soberly, with Kennedy taking the position opposite Khrushchev. Now, from the cloud above the gate, the Heavenly Referee descends. It is Jawaharlal Nehru, wearing the official striped shirt of a football referee and the official hat of the Congress Party. In his left hand is an olive branch, in his right a speech; on his hat sits a white dove...