Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hat the Lions, who snapped Yale's 11-game winning streak last week, will fire at coach John Yoviosin's eleven...
...standards elsewhere, Bryant is far from a militant Negro leader. His 178 N.A.A.C.P. chapter members have dutifully passed the hat to help the national organization, protested unsuccessfully against a few race killings, held a quiet voting drive that only got 250 of Pike County's 15,400 Negroes to register. Says Bryant: "We haven't gone into any radical area...
Died. Leonard ("Chico") Marx, 70, sly-smiling comedian whose fake Italian accent, trademark costume of velvet jacket and pointed hat, and pistol-finger piano playing backed his four younger brothers in their own brand of joyously irreverent comedy; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. In such Marx Brothers hits as Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca, Chico convulsed fans with his deadpan translation of horn honks made by leering Brother Harpo, his wild-eyed pocket picking and shortchanging and his Chaplinesque penchant for attracting trouble...
Crossing from Austria into Yugoslavia differs little from crossing any other Western European boundary. True, there is a double border, one for passport inspection, one for customs; and the customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport...
...engines race over dirt tracks to put out a fire in a village of mud and palm-thatch houses; a group of white-shirted intellectuals talking on a street corner at night are badgered for a cigarette by a man dressed up for an evening stroll in a top hat, blue-striped pajama bottoms, and a pair of torn, cutaway tails that he has found somewhere. And on the northwestern plains, Masai warriors swoop down on a village and take the cattle, intent on reacquiring the earth's bovine population, which their religion teaches them belongs exclusively to them...