Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bryant fearfully recalls some of the more tense moments he has spent in Widener. Sometime in the 1950s, he recalls, a professor emeritus "of vast age" disappeared into the stacks with coat and hat to read. Sometime later, one library staffer found just the coat and hat where the professor had been. "The rumors flew hot and heavy," Bryant remembers, but the professor had merely forgotten his things. Incidents of theft rattle his memory further. While Bryant was still a student, the story is told, a man stole thousands of books from the collection. The culprit was later caught...
...Glimp, Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty and now McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and J. Petersen Elder, then dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to leave. The deans left peaceably, with Ford being allowed to return briefly to pick up his coat...
Zbigniew Brzezinski and wife enjoyed the Washington premiere of Hair so much that they decided to take in the post-premiere party at the elan, a downtown D.C. disco. Doffing coat and tie, munching from a health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...
...Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett [March 12]. Personally, I prefer to think of it as the renovation of a historical landmark that if left alone would soon fall into decay and oblivion. Even the White House has to have a coat of paint now and then...
...then the second packet was also rejected. That day there would be no sale between the broker, who carried the diamonds around on consignment, and the cutter. The visitor took his worn pouch, holding stones worth thousands of dollars, and concealed it in an inside pocket of his coat. Then he headed off to another shop...