Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the law would keep them in school. Nor did they hesitate to tell "the teach" just what they thought of her. Such students, says Author Dunn, "know your exact place and sooner or later make it known to you. I once requested a student to take off his coat while in class, and he answered precisely: 'You can ask me to take off my jacket, but you can't tell...
...Build Morale. "You don't put morale on like a coat," Hurry-Up Yost used to say. "You build it day by day." It is another Yost dictum that Oosterbaan follows by keeping players relaxed and happy. (As a sophomore, he himself was once kicked off the squad for "lassitude" by an assistant coach, but Yost got him back.) He never uses sarcasm to goad a player, never loses his temper, almost never makes dressing-room pep speeches...
...perhaps, couldn't understand why these thirty or so guys spend every afternoon running plays for the varsity to practice against; how they manage to sweat through an inch-thick coat of mud in a freezing cold; why they play 60 minutes of football amid these dreary surroundings spurred on by a cheering manager; he couldn't understand that these guys love football
...Right Man. When Mussolini's legions rolled into Greece in 1940, Greek Chief of Staff Papagos in a black leather, ankle-length coat, cigarette in hand, went to the snowbound front to deploy his units. To the delight of the democratic world, his small, tough army whipped the Italians. Hitler delayed his attack on the U.S.S.R. and sent crack divisions to Mussolini's rescue; for three weeks Papagos and his evzones fought the Germans until overwhelming odds made him end the battle "to prevent Greece from being devastated." The Germans sent him to a VIP military prison...
...heavyset woman in a light grcy coat got to her feet. "Oh shut up, you dirty Communist!," she screamed. "You're no American. Our country, our country right or wrong...