Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometime during exam period three years ago a fanfare interrupted an otherwise peaceful dinner in the Freshman Union. Weary Freshmen looked up to see a large white sheet emblazoned with a pink "A+" unfurled from the balcony. A figure well over six feet tall in a white lab coat appeared, shed the coat, and dropped down to the floor of the Union dressed in a black wet suit with another pink "A+" painted on the chest. The man in the wet suit then ran throughout the Union distributing previously graded blue books. The grades were, of course, all A plusses...
Neighbors, who have contributed toward a new coat of paint for the victim's home, seem particularly anxious to hush up all comment on the shooting incident. "I don't want to talk about it," said one woman as she stepped into her front door, "I don't think anybody does...
...pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati ...The iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburgh ... They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
...produced more reform than almost anyone had expected. The bill, which is likely to be passed by both houses of Congress this week, falls far short of the wholesale rewrite of the tax code that ardent reformers, including Jimmy Carter, demand. It still leaves the code resembling a shapeless coat crazily patterned by holes and patches. But its provisions add up to the most significant changes in tax law since 1969, and they will raise an estimated $1.6 billion of added federal revenue in fiscal...
...plans to attend Prince's Day ceremonies, celebrating the official opening of the Dutch parliamentary year, as usual on Sept. 21. The only difference: as he passes through the streets with Queen Juliana in her famous horse-drawn golden carriage, the prince will be dressed in a morning coat rather than in the navy uniform that he has been forced to put into mothballs. Snapped Bernhard to a friend who inquired too curiously about his Prince's Day plans: "You would not have thought that I would go into hiding?" The restrained Dutch reaction to the prince...