Word: pith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Osaka's sleek, well-run subways, sweating crowds pour downtown during the early morning commuting hours. Many of the men wear shorts and Frank Buck-style pith helmets; Osaka's prostitutes are almost the only women who still wear the traditional Japanese kimonos; girl office workers do the best they can in makeshift "new look" dresses...
Parents smilingly held children up to see him; schoolgirls giggled nervously. A middle-aged man in a grey kimono lustily waved a frayed pith helmet, a relic of the army's Pacific salad days, while tears coursed from his eyes. A gnarled old woman stared fixedly, saying over & over in a choked voice, "li des-it is good." The react! ~n. had been the same in farming villages, coal mines, industrial areas-wherever the glossy, chrysanthemum-decked imperial train chugged...
Zanier hats were also ready for market last week. Brooklyn's American Merrilei Corp. (which also makes Hawaiian leis and paper party hats) brought out a pith helmet containing a tiny, concealed radio set with a single earphone. But the Buck Rogers buffs might prefer a football type helmet, which the American Junior Aircraft Co. of Portland, Ore. displayed at the 46th annual American Toy Fair. It carried a tone transmitter (see cut) which controls the steering of a glider airplane by sonic vibrations. A steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left...
...rest of the time the President swam, signed documents, lunched, napped, appeared in pith helmet and various tails-out sport shirts, strolled around the base, ate dinner, played poker in the evenings. He never went fishing and almost never ventured outside of the base into the flat, rambling town of Key West...
...Senate Secretary-to-be Les Biffle, he walked daily over to the secluded enlisted men's beach. There he donned a pair of trunks and splashed in the coral-green waters, using the peculiar head-out-of-water stroke he calls the "Missouri sidestroke." Afterwards, he clapped his pith helmet on his head, lolled on the beach reading newspapers while his aides threw a ball or played darts...