Word: pith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought a variegated collection of sartorial exhibits to Key West and wore them with obvious relish; during a week of beach expeditions, he showed one white pith helmet, one cane, one light yellow sport shirt with orange-and-brown palm trees on its front, one black-and-yellow sport shirt with brown trimmings, and one bright yellow sport shirt with a brown grill design on the front. They were worn with light-colored slacks. Usually, at the beach, the 65-year-old President simply sat in the sun, watching his staff frolic with a volleyball, then changed into bathing trunks...
Blue Danube, Dark Skies. It was a light schedule, and shortly before noon he was ready to relax. He donned a white pith helmet, strolled to the beach past blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...
...effort to make the average American a participant and not a statistic in a national health program, the progressive wing of the Republican party has brought up before Congress two bills, $1970 and H.R. 4919, outlining a new medical insurance plan. The pith of the bill is its emphasis on local autonomy. Its logic is that by keeping the average person in what amounts to personal contact with the health plan's administration you give him the responsibility of using the plan prudently...