Word: beret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head. For much of his 47 years, Newton had preached and practiced violence as a necessary means of self-defense for blacks in urban America. He will be remembered most as the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, enthroned in a rattan chair, wearing a black beret, with a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other...
Examples of the former might be someone who wears cowboy boots in the summer time, what with the Greenhouse Affect and all, or a person who wears a beret, which is a pain in the ass, all the time, or anyone who wears a safety pin in his cheek, which is just plain painful, for any amount of time. On the same track, people who only wear light jackets in freezing weather, supposedly because they believe them-selves to be weatherproof but mostly because they are trying to be cool (both physically and mentally), are also representative of this sort...
...Republican State Convention then endorsed the candidacy of state Representative Royall Switzler of Wellesley, a well-known, colorful gadfly. Switzler later admitted he had lied about his military record when he claimed to have served as a Green Beret in Vietnam. Switzler's Vietnam combat experience, he revealed, had consisted of watching footage on the evening news...
...crap. They understood--really understood--James Joyce on a first reading. I met a girl named Anastasia who had a vaguely European-sounding accent and had spent the last four years studying in Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Venice, Florence, Sydney and other assorted exotic cities. She wore a mauve beret and it actually looked good...
...widely praised in the Third World for his attacks on Western "imperialism." Sankara dressed in camouflage outfits, with a red beret, and wore a pearl-handled revolver at international meetings...