Word: greatcoats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
...white dawn of a Minnesota winter day, goateed Dr. William F. C. Heise put on his homespun suit, wing collar and black bow tie, and was helped into his greatcoat by his wife. One of the boys helped him hitch up the horses. When the doctor set off in the sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they...
...grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor. "Bring on your enemies," yelled hundreds of Transkei herders in Umtata a few days later, "and we will slaughter them...
...sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon...
...five minutes De Gaulle kept them waiting. Then, muffled in a fur-lined khaki greatcoat and red cap, he detrained, saluted, shook hands with beaming Commissar Molotov. While Soviet newsphotographers cranked their cameras, General de Gaulle spoke into a microphone: "On behalf of the people of France, I pay homage to the gallant people of the Soviet Union." Then, his long nose and ears blue with cold, he sped to the Foreign Office's guest house...