Word: slouching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 60 years of her life the charwoman so honored was Conchita Jurado, a born actress who never got a chance to act. One day in 1926 she forsook her scrubbing brush. She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society. That day and until her death five years later, she was Don Carlos Balmori, an eccentric bachelor grandee with vast fortunes and castles in Spain...
...weeks) across veld and mountain. They repeatedly outwitted Lord Kitchener's proud British Army, which Winston Churchill was covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through it all, yellow-bearded, slouch-hatted Commandant-General Smuts carried in his saddlebags, along with his biltong (dried venison) and coffee, a Greek Testament and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In retrospect, he seems to have fought not so much for a free Boer State as for a more tolerant British imperialism...
...Crouch & Slouch. Hunt moved rapidly into the finals, fighting his way past unassuming, even-paced 4-F Bill Talbert...
...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
Montgomery had been incessantly touring his positions, forever popping up in a slouch hat which he had grabbed from the head of a startled Australian infantryman. He had demanded stiff training and stiff discipline from the troops just behind the lines, and he had personally directed every type of night attack, marched with new troops, fired every new gun and tried out every new tank as they arrived. His angular, inquisitive figure was by now familiar to all the units about to attack: the sist Highlanders, veterans of France, now about to get their first action against the Germans since...