Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt fits the age. He is inevitable. He is the top, the acme of salesmanship. ... No matter what he does the people love him. If he goes out in the rain and deliberately takes off his coat and gets wet they think he is magnificent...
...tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said: 'If I've got to die for democracy, I might as well die for some of it right here...
...time I laughed loudly was when a huge colored soldier came tripping along the road, holding the tails of his coat out like wings. Goodness, he was a funny sight...
...Edmundson revolters held a pre-convention caucus. For 90 minutes, there was talk of "union democracy." Then a scuffle broke out in the rear, and the chocking sound of fist meeting jaw. Lewisites swarmed over chairs, mounted the rostrum, demanded-and took-the floor. Edmundson left, forgetting his coat...
...June 6, Canada's divisions stormed ashore under the Red Ensign. Originally designed to identify Canadian ships at sea is Britain's standard merchant ma rine flag with the Union Jack in the quarter of a red field - to which is added Canada's coat of arms in the fly. The Canadian beach was at Bernierès-sur-Mer, between Caen and the Orne River. There, for the first time in history, Canada fought under her own national flag...