Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly midnight when a fast-moving, youthful figure muffled in a trench coat bounced up the steps and rang the doorbell at Joe McCarthy's brightly lighted house on Capitol Hill. The door opened to admit Roy Cohn, 27, the chief counsel of McCarthy's Permanent Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. A few moments later, Cohn emerged with McCarthy, and the two talked in low tones as they walked Joe's five-month-old Doberman pinscher up and down C Street...
...equivalent of $34 a yard, the crepe de Chine pastels of the skirt at $27.50 (wage of average Russian: $175 a month). At an opulent lilac negligee lined with white silk and with a white ruffed collar, said Salisbury, "an old peasant in a sheepskin cap and coat ... stared as though his eyes would pop." There were heavy velvets at $52.50 a yard, silk in flower patterns ("more heavily figured than would suit Western buyers") at about $32, corduroys in solid colors and stripes at $35. The quality, Salisbury added, seemed good...
...Forum drew to an end. After the final applause, the bald man stood up and donned his black coat with the velvet collar. With a quick check of his pocket to make sure he had the Memorial Church list and the "Better Neighbors" pamphlet, he turned and strode...
...voice of Abbé Pierre went on: "Empty your attics, Parisians. There may be venerable things in them, but they're less venerable than the lives of babies." As the Abbé strode through a tent shelter late last week, a woman in a chic Persian lamb coat handed him $210 collected from friends. "Monsieur 1'Abbé," she cried. "You have awakened...
...back to his history reading. Well . . . five more minutes. And maybe I can find something really funny, he thought. The flannel led pair in front of him was cackling over a card emblazoned with an outhouse. It turned out to be a phone booth. Well, Oh, there was blue coat again, gleefully whacking his friend on the back. He was holding a large card decorated with a picture of a secretary. Vag strained to see what it said. "I'm just a Working Girl. . ."the yellow letters shrieked. May be they've come up with something, Vag though hopefully...