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Word: greatcoats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark and the door opens. The figure enters. It pauses. It is a man wearing a greatcoat-putts down his collar. He goes to a small oil lamp and lights it. In the light we see Beria's face . . . The door creaks open . . . Another bundled figure enters the dacha . . . It is Malenkov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Who Is the Brute? | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other creations: a $15,000 sable-lined raincoat, a $65,000 sable greatcoat, and a $5,000 Fredrica-designed strapless mink sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Comeback | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat man, Benito Mussolini, and his doxy Claretta Petacci were hanging upside down outside a gas station in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Gold of Dongo | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Looking bearishly cherubic in his fur-collared greatcoat, Sir Winston Churchill, 82, slowly debarked from a plane at London Airport after a two-month holiday on the French Riviera. His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Rocko double-parked his red Ferrari outside Briggs Hall the next afternoon. Tubeless, who had been waiting, ran out and embraced him, a dream in her black knit sheath and white suede greatcoat. Her wavy blond hair tangled silkily with his fingers as she crushed against him. Her matchless face was burning with anticipation...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: The Big Game: Some Faces In the Crowd | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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