Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father's Coat. First stop on their itinerary was London. The mayor, in a natty, brown-checked suit and a vivid yellow-striped tie, was unabashed to find his British welcomers all dressed up in formal attire. Downing a quick Scotch-on-the-rocks at London Airport, he gazed at the dense horizon of top hats and sighed. "I guess I'll have to buy one," he said. "I haven't worn a topper since last St. Patrick's Day parade." At a luncheon a few days later, Wagner was properly turned out in formal dress...
Meanwhile, the helicopter crews fought the fly itself, flew more than 300 missions in their U.S.-made Bell 47Gs. Repeatedly, they sprayed breeding sites with two powerful insecticides: lindamul, to coat the river and kill the larvae; lindane, to coat the foliage and kill the adult flies. The trick was to hedgehop the dense areas so closely that the insecticide would be blasted to the ground by the downwash from the rotors, would then boil up to saturate the underside of the foliage...
...accuracy. Through the years, they have searched for evidence to support a variety of theories concerning the origin of the U.S. flag -that it derived from British and Dutch flags, that it evolved out of designs of the different colonies, that it came from George Washington's coat of arms. But today, all that is known is that on June 14, 1777. the Philadelphia Congress resolved that ". . . the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.'' Eighteen years...
...entire Presidium of the Central Committee and all Cabinet ministers were on the tarmac at 6 p.m. when the gleaming Soviet plane taxied into Moscow's main airport. As Nehru, in Gandhi cap, white churidar (trousers) and brown sherwani (coat), a red rose in his second buttonhole, stepped from the plane, 18 Russian children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet...
...such a large organization are unavoidable. Last fall, for example, the keys made for the new Yard mailboxes, did not fit. But the error, like others, has been rectified, in the usual efficient manner and the Department of Buildings and Grounds' day-to-day work continues; from a new coat of paint for a faded room in Weld, to the remodeling of a wing at the Medical School...