Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polite. In fact, I was generally treated with more deference and gallantry in three days at Yale than I have been in three and a half years here. The boys at the News stood up when I came into the room, they helped me on and off with my coat, and they watched their language. I heard "Oh Sh . . . ugar" at least twice, and "F . . .ooey" once, which I must say embarrassed me a great deal more than what they had intended ever would have...
...tenacious rear-guard action. When readers objected to King Alexander of Yugoslavia's regularly being described as "dentist-like," TIME argued doggedly in print that he "has about him an air, not quite clinical, of cleanly meticulousness commonly found in dentists. He also on occasion wears a white coat...
...candidate, but it seems likely that they will support Nixon, even though they have been rather dovish on the war. Knight disclosed his personal feelings in a recent column: "Somehow we preferred the old Hubert - dedicated, faithful and true-to the newly contrived candidate who now wears a coat of many colors...
...school upheaval started when blacks at Dorchester's English High School demanded permission to form an all black Afro-American Club and to wear African dashikis instead of the customary coats and ties. English's headmaster granted the dress request, but the School Department refused to allow the blacks to form their own club. The blacks walked out, and were joined by white students protesting the coat and tie rule...
...more control over their school lives. The crisis was in large part a spontaneous cry for student power, and it was to some degree successful. Students won the power to make their own dress codes, and in at least one case--Boston Latin--they actually voted to retain the coat and tie rule...