Word: coated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inaugural Address on Monday, Ronald Reagan planned to be modestly attired, in a plain blue business suit rather than the black club coat and striped trousers he wore when he first took the oath of office in 1981. Like the President's clothing, the Inaugural celebration was toned down, at least in comparison with the $16 million extravaganza that launched Reagan's first term. The four-day celebration was not exactly subdued; not with eight black- tie balls, two galas, a huge fireworks display and a parade. But the theme of the Inaugural was "We the People," and even...
...Family, the Vice President and his family, the Cabinet and White House aides. A public ceremony will follow on Monday at the West Front of the Capitol before TV cameras and an anticipated crowd of 140,000. The President will wear a business suit instead of the black club coat and striped trousers he favored in 1981. Mrs. Reagan will be wearing an electric-blue outfit by Adolfo...
Ralph: Let me get my coat off, dearest. I want to brace myself on the off chance that someone I love intends to launch a hearty feminist harangue. Am I about to hear that smiling is bad for women...
...troops standing at attention seemed to sway slightly as soldiers moved from one leg to the other trying to keep warm. Looking down from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, members of the Politburo of the Communist Party tugged at the earflaps of their thick fur hats and pulled their coat collars tight. They had braved -7 degrees F weather last week to pay tribute to the late Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov and to witness the sealing of his ashes in a burial niche in the Kremlin wall...
Their paint was like no one else's. Coat after coat was laboriously scraped back with the edge of a meat cleaver and then scumbled again until it looked weirdly provisional, a thin caking of color in the pores of the canvas. The works were gripping yet strangely distant, scratchily insistent rather than speechifying, and their scale was utterly convincing...