Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right in the middle of Brazil's white-hot, off-year* election campaign, a shabby, ill-shaven politico stopped abruptly in the middle of a "give-'em-hell" speech. Reaching into his coat pocket, he pulled out a sandwich and began to munch it in full view of his audience. Then, with ostentatious frugality, he wrapped the crumby remainder in paper and carefully stowed it away again. He was vote-catching Jânio Quadros, candidate for governor of São Paulo. Brazil's richest state...
...Popo, found the injured youth and girl in the lean-to where the young climber had left them; they were carried back to safety. Following the course of the avalanche, the party came to a deep crevasse and spotted in it with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped...
...face of the Daily News poll, New York Republicans have panicked. At their request, President Eisenhowever made a special trip through New York City, Ives clinging desperately to his coat-tails. Democrats are confident of victory, and the Daily News pollsters are defying anyone to take the wind out of their straws...
...traditional parade is scheduled to start at 7:30 or 8 p.m. Saturday, featuring the Princeton Band and an unidentifield clown called "Princeton Charlie," who reportedly will be lowered from a room into the crowd, attired in a reccoon coat and white bucks spouting off-color jokes...
...girl in a tan coat pointed out that unemployment is relatively low. "Whadya mean?" boomed the reply. "Why in advertising alone, you got thousands--millions o' guys doing nothin'--why that's the most useless job there is. And all these salesmen tramping the same street, selling the same damn thing on the same damn day. Why--." "But they're not unemployed, are they?" said the girl. "Gimme another question," said Trainor. The woman in the shawl scowled at the girl while Trainor was engrossed in the subtleties of another question. "It don't take an Einstein," he replied...