Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Afterward, brass bands come down the Champs-Elysees, the solemn Garde reépublicaine wondrously blowing trumpets and tubas from atop their dancing horses; they are followed by the cantering, cloaked Spahis. In the crowd, a man dressed in a shabby, purple-striped coat shakes a collection box, and the crowd remembers the day of which this is the 13th anniversary-that happy day in 1945 when Germany surrendered, when returning deportees, still wearing the purple-striped clothing issued them by the Nazis, danced in the streets of Paris, and ecstatic women in wooden shoes rode behind the Gardes Republicans...
...them. At a Los Angeles foreign-car agency, where he bought a $12,000 Mercedes-Benz to replace his old Cadillac, Ramfis shipped off another $5,500 Mercedes to Zsa Zsa and an $8,500 model to Kim. Later he picked up the tab for a $17,000 chinchilla coat that Zsa Zsa had ordered. Calling himself "one of the wealthiest young men in the world," Ramfis termed the gifts "surprises...
...when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous applause such as had not been heard in Russia for over a century." The pianist who has been...
Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...even the parade to the post belonged to Silky, his red coat gleaming through the muggy afternoon, a red shadow roll across his nose and a red ribbon braided into his tail. And the cheers were still for Silky when the field ran away from him at the start. He fell back nearly 30 lengths, but this was the way it was supposed to be. No one was worried. There was even a special battery of television cameras trained on Silky. There was no room for him in the main lens, which focused so closely on the leaders that televiewers...