Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipped a revolver into his coat pocket, took a train to Oakland, and wandered along sidewalks until he found a car with the ignition key in the lock. He got in, drove away, stole a different set of license plates and put them on the stolen car. Then he drove to the South Berkeley branch of the Bank of America...
Examiners pinned a number on the front and back of each man's coat. On the general-information test, the Burma war veteran (who was No. 17) was asked: 1) Who was the Prime Minister of Iran at the beginning of the Azerbaijan dispute? 2) Who was the C.I.O.'s first boss? 3) Who founded the 19th Century science of criminology...
Grandfather's oldest son was another Henry-redheaded "Harry," who taught at Iowa State Agricultural College and became Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge. Harry's wife, interested in genealogy, dug up the Wallace family coat of arms. It displayed an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe. The motto: Sperandum est (free translation: Somewhere, the sun is shining...
Some Londoners tried to keep cool by lying, sweaty and scarlet, on the shores of Hyde Park's Serpentine. Others sped for the seashore, where thousands slept on the beaches. Steve Raynor, a waiter from tropical Jamaica, changed his coat three times and gave up. "It's too hot in England," he said...
...Acme, although smaller than A.P., is neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...