Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have seriously considered employing my own spin-doctor, to be of use in several circumstances. Imagine it's a Saturday night, you're stumbling to a party through mists of rain, the brain clouded with a few spirits. At the soiree, as you leave your coat and gloves with the attendant, and your presence is announced to the assembled gathering, you suddenly see, through a passing haze of colored silk and crystal glass, a man/woman to your liking. Unfortuately the necessary preamble of introduction and mutual mental exploration simply isn't within your power. Call the spin-doctor. Along trots...
After teasing a student for sporting asweatshirt instead of a coat and tie, thecelebrity asked the students if high SAT scoresand 4.0 grade point averages in high school arenecessary for admission, Kaminski said...
Grand masters who 20 years ago would not have dared carry his coat -- the younger ones would not have been tall enough -- now publicly call his play aimless and amateurish. One Russian grand master advises patronizingly that Fischer must "realize that chess has changed in the past 20 years." World champion Garry Kasparov notes the "low level" of play in the match. "Incredibly low," says international master Alex Sherzer, with more than a trace of disgust...
...Somali nurse dressed in white coat and rubber sandals picks his way through the crowd to weed out the youngest, most desperate cases. Gathering them together in another part of the compound, he feeds each one a spoonful of antidiarrhea medicine from a rusty thermos bottle. Every child under five receives a plastic bracelet, which entitles the wearer to a protein biscuit in addition to a bowl of gruel. The bands are color coded; blue for severely malnourished; red for those on the verge of death...
...clamp down on the crime. But it was little solace to her family and friends, mute with grief and occupied with the chores of loss. At W.R. Grace, supervisor Nicholas Spencer cleaned out Basu's desk, packed up a dozen snapshots of Sarina, collected her books and removed her coat from the back of the office door. In a drawer he came upon what was to have been a midday snack -- an orange and some crackers. Three boxes in all, they were set aside until the day Basu's husband can bring himself to go through them...