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Word: caparisoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honolulu, he made a heartbreaking tour over the death-stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully on a destroyer, slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look Homeward, Fighter | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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