Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unbuttoned Coat. TIME'S Rome Bureau reported a parallel situation: "The Marshall Plan, a solid propaganda success, pinned the Italian Communists down to an excruciatingly painful issue. How could they ask the Italian people to trust them with the task of reconstruction when everybody knew that the only grain, coal and money that Italy could get had to come from...
Radcliffe took up field hockey, with a murmur of "Sissy" in Princeton's direction, about 50 years ago. The Annex girls of those days played the game in coat sweaters buttoned up to here and droopy bloomers extending down to about here. The 1947 stick-swingers wear cherry tunics and shorts...
...There's a difference," he explains, "in the way a $12 coat wrinkles from the way a $75 coat wrinkles. And that has to be right. It's just as important, esthetically, as the difference in the light of the Ile de France and the Brittany coast. Maybe it's more important. If I look at an ordinary overcoat as if I never saw it before, then it becomes as fit a subject for painting as one of Titian's purple cloaks...
...point, during the latter stages of the speech, a figure, clad in what appeared to be a raccoon-skin coat and a bear's head mask crept up behind the speaker, almost reaching the edge of the infield before Yard police set out in pursuit. The intruder, bearing a hammer and sickle, retreated over the board fence surrounding the secret football practice field and was not caught by the rapidly advancing forces...
...best way to see all your friends. You have to be sure that they wave at you: It's proof to them that I can catch a man. Only you don't usually try to speak to them-- they might find something catty to say about your raccoon coat...