Word: skimmering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirty seconds later Lewis flew past Carr and Mueller and completed his hat trick with a bull skimmer into the lower right corner...
...pointed to three hulking boys, one with a skimmer on and an other with a shriner's hat. One of them, Al Sheinbaum, planned all the fun. "This is the pit," he said, gesturing in back of him. There were loads of girls. Someone was beating a big drum in time to an Indian war dance and everyone had some sort of crazy hat on. "We're going to bring the pit to cheer at tiddly-winks matches," he said...
Maga's Daughter (1966) shows his wife, who is fond of crazy hats, wearing an 18th century Quaker skimmer. Says Andy: "It reminded me of those Early-American flatiron weather vanes." This work, unlike most, belongs to the artist's own collection-permanently. Since Betsy, an ebullient woman of 45, reminds the artist of her mother, he named the painting, which has the quality of universal womanhood, to encompass two generations...
Gordy Price padded the margin five minutes before the period ended, with the Huskies again down a man. His long skimmer flipped cleanly under Northeastern's screened goalie, and Harvard took a 3-1 lead...
...scoops up Louis Fischer's Life of Lenin, Camus' The Plague, George Orwell's Essays, and four Ian Flemings for insurance, the vacationer is torn between dreams of intellectual grandeur and the gnawing suspicion that he will only finish the Flemings. Once again, the seasonal Shakespeare skimmer might observe, vaulting ambition hath o'erleaped itself...