Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only seven weeks ago that the DeBakey team ran what it thought was a highly successful experiment with a unit that replaced both of a dog's ventricles. Yet progress in the field is so fast that within four days the researchers were dismissing their test as old hat. They were getting as good or better results with a single ballooning sac inserted in the left ventricle alone. It seems, says Dr. Hall, that this may be enough in many cases to stimulate, if not precisely duplicate, the work of nature's complex four-chambered heart...
...accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible," she allowed at another point, shaking her trim tricorn hat like a panache at the antifeminists. William Green, doughty president of the A.F.L., accepted the challenge. "Labor," he said grimly, "will never be reconciled to her appointment...
...Call Me Madam Secretary." During the following twelve years-the era of New Deal reform, unprecedented labor strife and the huge demands of World War II-the tricorn hat, the patrician Boston accent and the impassioned air of the social worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...
...push, but a Pinkerton guard had to carry Wilma out. Having a grand time in the limelight, where all could see her two-piece "Early Bird outfit" of an off-white tunic and matching knee breeches, she kicked her high boots in the air, waved her straw "space hat" at the crowd. Screaming "A. T. & T. ism," she threatened: "I'm going to sue the corporation." As she disappeared, the crowd cheered...
...Franklin Roosevelt's state Industrial Commissioner. In 1933 Roosevelt appointed her the New Deal's Secretary of labor, a post which she held until his death. Although she was the first woman in the Cabinet, she wore this honor with the same nonchalance as she did the tricorne hat that became her symbol...