Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frail-looking young pianist walked into the recording studio one day last June, wearing beret, coat, muffler and gloves, carrying two large bottles of spring water to drink, five small bottles of pills, and his own piano chair. Before he started to play, he soaked his hands and arms in hot water. Then he began a week's stint: recording Bach's difficult "Goldberg" Variations. Sometimes he sang as he played, and when he finished a "take" that particularly pleased him, he jumped up with a gleeful "Wow!" But when a piano note sagged by a hair...
...tuition rise--"indeed, a strong case could be made for a larger increase even now"--for another term or two. In that event we hope the Department of Buildings and Grounds will get out its brushes and cover the walls and roof of University Hall with a well-earned coat of the brightest spring green...
...resist. But as an idealist, I can't capitulate. I guess I'll just fight this fringe business as long as possible, and then retire to my small room in L-entry. But enough of this--I must be going." He swept up his coat in a hawklike motion...
Then the man in the trench coat and horn-rimmed glasses, with a prize-fighter's nose, came through the crowd and shook his hand. "You were terrific out there," he said. "I'm very pleased with you, Billy." Bill Cleary, who set an NCAA scoring record last year with 89 points, wearing now an Olympic jersey instead of a Crimson one, replied simply: "Thank you, Mr. Weiland...
Kitchen-Table Autocrat. He is innocent of humor. His only joke that associates can recall was a remark made when he arrived at a Labor Party meeting from a diplomatic reception wearing striped trousers and a morning coat. He began his address to the meeting: "Comrades, please forgive my working clothes...