Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jail through the bustle of Egypt's busiest highway, the Nile. Ashamed, defeated, heartsick, and yet never without a mild, detached humor and a powerful conviction of future triumph, Joseph thinks how much this imprisonment is like his first descent into the pit when his brothers stole his coat of many colors...
...later, they could piece together only part of the mystery. Mrs. Higginson had gone out to dinner the night before, leaving the children in charge of a 16-year-old Negro boy. She returned about 10:30 and dismissed the "sitter." She was found next day in the trench coat in which she entered the house. The police questioned the baby-tender and believed his story. Mrs. Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt at rape, no robbery. Six special investigators went to work...
...Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick's supporters will be more hindrance than help: such "Eastern interests" as the C.I.O. and the Communist Daily Worker...
Political reporters who watched Candidate Burdick stumping the rural districts, whipping off his coat under the expert Langer management, bluntly predicted that Nye was through. But Washington observers-especially those who watched Gerald Nye's shrewd progress from a young bumpkin in bulbous yellow shoes to a sleekly tailored politician who drew down handsome lecture fees for anti-British, anti-Russian tirades-still believed strongly in the Nye talent for self-preservation...
Before the Russians opened their Finnish drive (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), British wags joked that the Second Front was calling for the first front. A London cartoonist portrayed a capitalist in striped trousers and tail coat, scrawling a sign on a factory wall. The sign: "Open a front in the East at once...