Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...address a nationalist gathering at the tomb of Mohammed Massoud, an Iranian newspaperman killed by terrorists in 1948. Fatemi had just reached the climax, declaring: "What is life worth, compared with such high objectives?" when a shaven-headed 15-year-old boy in the audience reached inside his coat and drew out a U.S.-made .45. With both hands, he fired a bullet into Fatemi's belly, only three yards away...
...longer dons a cowboy suit for the annual fat stock show (Amon Carter, president), and seldom wears his checked gambler's suit with electrically illuminated necktie for soirees at Shady Oak Farm. Nevertheless, when he goes abroad, he wears his western hat and cream-colored polo coat, and people say, if they don't know him by sight, "There goes a sport," or, if they are Texans, "a nach...
Next day the Queen herself arrived at London's airport. Winston Churchill had urged Londoners to stay away, and a mere handful of reporters and officials were there to greet her. A black coat hiding her greyish-blue dress (she had taken a black dress with her, but there had been no time to unpack it), her face a pale, wan oval beneath a tight black hat, Elizabeth stood in the door of the plane, looking down at the bared heads of the men who had come to meet her. With a brave half smile, she came quickly down...
Detailed Description. In Lexington, Ky., after a swindled merchant set cops on the trail of a forger wearing a ragged coat fastened with an eightpenny nail, Suspect Brice Young protested: "It couldn't be me. My coat is fastened with tenpenny nail...
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was an unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following...