Word: beret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure. Plenty. Cowboy hats, sun hats, a couple of tricornes, several cardboard crowns, a red-white-and-blue beret. California wore black Zorro hats, and a delegate from New Jersey had an elephant head on his head-if that counts as a hat. One woman at the convention wore a straw skimmer with an elephant on top, which also wore a hat, an Uncle Sam. She was holding a Cabbage Patch doll, which wore another skimmer, on which stood another elephant...
...bearded man wearing camouflage army gear and a beret and with a knife strapped to his leg walked into the studios of CJRP, a Quebec City radio station, one morning last week. He handed a cassette tape to a reporter and told her, "To you, my name is Mr. D." A short time later, a man fitting Mr. D.'s description burst into the Quebec provincial legislature, called the National Assembly, firing a submachine gun as he went and shouting, "Où sont les députés? Jevais les tuer!" (Where are the legislators? I am going...
...loss. Determined to help restore la gloire, he won admission to the prestigious St.-Cyr military academy, where he stood out for his arrogance and scholarship as well as for his height (6 ft. 5 in.). As an officer in the late 1920s, he insisted on wearing his beret tilted unconventionally to the right, and championed the superiority of tanks to fixed defenses, an unfashionable notion in the France of the Maginot Line. When his homeland was invaded in 1940 De Gaulle, then 49, put his theories into action: he threw together an armored division and won two important battles...
...Puerto Rican Olympic basketball team. But dreams, like pounds, like years, slip by faster than luge racers flip from their sleds. Finally last year, he says, "I got the name of the president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee out of the New York Times. They sent me a beret. The rest of my opening ceremonies uniform is off the shelf." Now the dream is close enough so that Tucker can reach for it. Though even as he does, it will be behind him. "I'll carry the flag," he says brightly, but adds ruefully...
...victim described his assailant as a Black male, 18-19 years old, with a thin build and short hair, wearing a black leather jacket and white pants with a navy beret Police searched the area for suspects with-out success. Police would not say yesterday what type of weapon, if any, was used by the assailant...