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Word: coatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boudin's appearance certainly doesn't overwhelm anybody. He's on the small side, and heavy bags under his eyes make him look tired. His gray-white hair, once blond, is short but disheveled, and his simple sports coat and sweater are more the dress of a recluse academic than a senior law partner with a 10-room office in downtown New York...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: Clarence Darrow of Brooklyn | 12/14/1973 | See Source »

...People can muster sufficient self-righteousness to throw Nixon out for dishonesty, he would not be unreasonable to expect The American People to make good on its most basic promise. Nixon does have payments on a few houses to keep up. Pat eventually will need another good Republican cloth coat. And you can't rely on Whittier College alumni in hard times for a job; going to Harvard might not be everything in life, but when you're pounding the streets for work, it beats having to say you went to Whittier...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Give the Guy a Job | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

...electric golf cart, passed the state safety inspection and now drives the vehicle to his local rapid-transit station every day. When Massachusetts' Berkshire Community College lowered class room temperatures to 63°, Jurgen A. Thomas began lecturing his drama class in a very collegiate (1920s) raccoon coat. And Paul Indianer, an insurance executive in Miami, has replaced his telephone-equipped Chrysler Imperial with a bicycle. "It's great exercise, and I'm amused at the stares I get," he says. The stares are not for Indianer but for his portable telephone, now installed on the handlebars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Cold Comfort for a Long, Hard Winter | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...fashion was, of course, morning suits for all. Once, in the 1890s, when a young attorney showed up in "street clothes," Justice Horace Gray was overheard growling, "Who is that beast who dares to come in here with a gray coat?" In recent years, a dark business suit has become acceptable, though the Solicitor General and his male staff members still represent the U.S. in cutaways and striped trousers. As for Deputy Solicitor General Jewel Lafontant, she has designed a cutaway-inspired jacket and striped skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Dressing Down for Not Dressing Up | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...police start their search for the men with only a few leads: one thief is 5 ft. 10 in. tall, gray-haired, and slightly overweight. Another is 25-years-old and wore a brown cloth coat. Some of the gang live in the South Shore area...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: Coin Heist: A Drama In Three Acts | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

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