Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through a seldom used constitutional provision called a "constructive" vote of no confidence, Kohl, 52, had become West Germany's sixth and youngest postwar Chancellor, ending 13 years of continuous rule by Social Democratic governments. Hours after the decision, an ebullient Kohl, garbed in cutaway coat, striped trousers and top hat, accepted the formal document of his appointment from Karl Carstens, President of the Federal Republic. Kohl declared his unprecedented parliamentary victory "a great day for democracy" and proclaimed the task ahead to be "a spiritual and moral challenge...
...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...
...says, sending a swift shot to the rake's midriff and pulling his coat down from his shoulders, thus locking the charlatan's hands in his pockets. Instead of disarming the sap as Bogart does at a moment just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
...surveillance equipment is foolproof, however, because miniaturized state-of-the-art components can easily be dropped into a pocket or hidden inside a coat lining. Says Robert McDiarmid, a former sheriffs lieutenant and now a partner in a California security firm: "I don't give a damn how good your system is, or how sophisticated your hardware. Generally speaking, when the system fails, it's a people failure." The best way to solve that problem may be the one used by companies like IBM and Apple Computer, which strive to keep their employees loyal by treating them fairly...
...silver-haired and there is a certain heaviness in his stride; too many neon midnights, too many gray-lit dawns. But if he is weary, he is not yet cynical; if his luck is currently as battered as his trench coat, his streetwise honor has been burnished instead of tarnished by hard use. He is Bob the Gambler, out to rob the casino at Deauville, and he is the only certifiable grownup now appearing as a hero on any American screen outside of the revival houses or the late shows...