Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even shocked, after this reception, to be taken into another room by a very charming young lady, told to remove my coat and to lie down on a cot. Another young lady came to the bed and started to question me further about my medical past. At this point my ego had been inflated to the extreme, and I took this woman into my confidence and explained that they really didn't have to go to all this effort, that I intended to renew my subscription anyway...
...Priceless Possession. As the royal yacht moved closer to shore at the river's mouth, the Queen was more plainly discernible. Like perhaps a thousand or more other mothers on the shore at that precise moment, she was firmly gripping the coat collar of her squirming son to keep him from leaning too perilously over the rail. The cheers that rose at the sight of her familiar, youthful, dignified figure on the Britannia's deck were tinged with relief and thanksgiving. It is part of the family feeling that characterizes the British attitude toward its monarchy that...
...with the five-year-old Duke of Cornwall. It was the gallant old Prime Minister's second official greeting. By special invitation he had spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House uniform to a morning coat for the pierside ceremony. After the greetings, Elizabeth, Philip and their children entered an open landau drawn by six Windsor greys for the triumphal procession past more cheering crowds back to Buckingham. Hours later, the crowds were still pressing so thickly before the floodlit palace that the Queen was obliged...
...notes that a restaurant menu offers a dreaded veal cutlet. He suggests that hic jacet is a sport coat from the corn belt and that ad nauseam is a sickening advertisement. He even tells a dream girl on an ocean liner: "If you care to take a turn on deck, you'll find me forward. Possibly even a bit unscrupulous...
...months ago, the French asked Chennault for 24 American pilots for the perilous job of flying supplies into Dienbienphu. Earthquake went among the first. The C-119s they flew were on loan from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. markings barely covered over with one coat of grey paint. The pay was good (about $3,000 a month, including hardship pay and overtime), but if pressed, Earthquake admitted to another reason. "Way I figure it, we either got to fight the bastards at home or fight them over here." When his CAT buddies howled with derisive laughter at the idea...