Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took her hand, kissed her head, bent close to murmur some words, and placed on her lap a small box inscribed with the words Totus Tuus (Totally Yours) and the papal coat of arms. When she opened the box, she found a rosary of white beads with a gold cross. Said De Martino: "If you had given me the whole world, it wouldn't have meant so much." A Boston cop who had been standing beside the chair began to weep. "I've got to get back to church," he said, and he walked away...
Even so, Carter was encouraged by the cheering crowds lined six and seven deep along the road; some people waved signs proclaiming JIMMY, NOT TEDDY. In the Steubenville high school auditorium. Carter shed his coat, mopped his perspiring face and promised that coal production would be tripled by 1995. The windfall-profits tax, he pledged, would amount to $88 billion in revenues, and $75 billion would be spent on coal...
...Diaghilev ballet, that for Nemtchinova in the adagietto in Les Biches, reached its final form, are therefore of interest. We have seen how Laurencin's nebulous watercolors had been evolved by Sudeikina and Kochno ... Nemtchinova appeared before Diaghilev's eyes in a long blue velvet frock-coat, like that of a head porter in a hotel. 'Give me the scissors, Grigoriev!' Diaghilev exclaimed. He cut away the collar, to make a wide V-neck. He cut away the velvet, till it barely covered the buttocks. Nemtchinova had never shown so much leg before (what ballerina...
...tough, burly, street-smart politician, with a promising future and a flair for the spectacular. When New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay ordered the flag atop city hall lowered as a gesture of protest against the Viet Nam War. Matthew J. Troy Jr. appeared on the roof, coat flapping in the breeze, and put the flag back up. Said he: "That's where it belongs...
...scoops in his syndicated column ("Wash ington Merry-Go-Round") or on his Sunday radio broad casts became headlines: the Roosevelt court-packing plan, F.D.R.'s destroyers-for-bases swap with Churchill, the Patton soldier-slapping incident, Sherman Adams' vicuna coat and many other tales, worthy and less worthy...