Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, cattle and hogs-everything had "done fine." Buildings gleamed in a new coat of white paint. New cider and fruit packing houses, equipped with stainless steel tanks and refrigerating units, stood near the main house. There was a new $1,500 orchard duster and an elevator that hoisted corn from the wagons into the cribs...
...Jimmy is left alone to conduct-or be conducted in-his first love affair. Later that night, as he stands trembling in his mistress' closet listening to the husband's unexpected return, then as he flees naked down the hotel corridor, clutching his evening shoes and dinner coat, he remembers Casanova and realizes in a flash that this is what his tutors were talking about -the continuity of Western culture...
...years still holder of the women's speed record for swimming the English Channel, wished the best of luck to 17-year-old Shirley May France, training for the same feat. In England, Shirley May primly assured the world that there would be a bathing suit under her coat of grease...
Shirley May planned to practice for a few days at Dover, before going to France for the big try. She intended to daub herself with the traditional coat of protective grease, but she did not put it so prosaically to the reporters in London's Waterloo Station. Said Shirley May: "I have brought along four one-piece suits to wear in training, but I will swim the Channel nude. I probably won't even be wearing a suit when I enter the water...
Paris on a hot day, clad in a wool coat, shapeless slacks and something that looked like bedroom slippers, she seized a startled friend's hat too late to conceal her famous face from a prying lens...