Word: coats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...
...Boston Telegram came to interview the 20-year-old author, and the two were soon painting the town mauve. "We lived on gin and Swinburne," recalls Beebe. "Jim had delusions of grandeur when it came to money. When he called on a girl, he would put on a morning coat and striped pants, hire a car and get a million orchids - all of it charged and seldom paid...
Since World War II, Doggett competitors have not been considered professionals, hence are eligible for the Diamond Sculls at Henley. Would Collins try? He was making no promises. But wasn't the wearer of Doggett's coat and badge the best oarsman in England...
After the preliminary speech by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren in a morning coat, the major themes of the joint conference were laid down in major speeches by Britain's Lord Kilmuir (who, as David Maxwell Fyfe, was British Home Secretary from 1951-54) and U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...lurking in the background, Cheasty passed Hoffa a clutch of committee documents, and Hoffa turned over bundles of bills in return. In all, it added up to $3,000. When the agents nabbed him one evening in Washington's Dupont Plaza Hotel, Jimmy was carrying in an inside coat pocket a document that Cheasty had handed him a few moments before...