Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found himself astonished. Then, for the first time, he had an urge, as strong as a clenching fist, to kill them. His coat had a special change pocket cut laterally into the button flap. It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could...
...more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much that not even his British enemies had a derogatory nickname for him during the war. He could strip off his coat and help the field hands, but he had no very close friends. The Marquis de Lafayette, his French ally, was as close as anyone. To humanize Washington, suggests Cunliffe, would be to falsify him, though of course many have tried to do that in the past two centuries...
...depth of Ghana's economic malaise is painfully visible on the streets of Accra, the capital. Potholes are everywhere; government buildings have not seen a new coat of paint in a decade. In the city's once thriving central market, goods are now in short supply. An egg costs $2.20; a pack of cigarettes, $30. Many factories have closed completely for lack of materials, while those that remain open commonly operate at only 10% of capacity. Harvests of cassava, the staple vegetable of the Ghanaian diet, have fallen to 1.8 million tons, down from 3.6 million tons...
...will be blamed if the defendant in abuse cases, often a parent or family friend, is convicted and punished. Says Carol Schrier, director of the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia: "We emphasize that the judge or jury makes the decision." Experts are careful, however, not to sugar-coat the potential outcome. "If it's going to involve the possible jailing of a parent, I think they have a right to know that," says Patty Coleman, a Philadelphia psychiatric social worker...
...closet, which contained an old coat and some suitcases, was completely burned out. The walls of the room were damaged by the sprinkler system and the hoses used to put the fire out. Because the House kitchen is just under the room where the fire took place some minor water damages also occurred there...