Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand American Handicap, the World Series of trapshooting, there are no favorites, for no champion has ever succeeded in repeating. One morning last week, competing in his first Grand American, a Wisconsin high-school boy in overalls and shooting jacket "went straight" for the first 68 clay birds, muffed the 69th, finished out his 100 shots without another miss. Then curly-haired Jimmy Rasmussen, 17, went back to his job as scorekeeper for other contestants, to help pay his way to the meet at Vandalia, Ohio...
...When Figueres took Cartago, the Government canceled the international plane flights and our last communications link was gone. A member of the rebel underground pressed a note into my sleeve promising uncensored use of Tropical Radio's transmitter at Cartago, Figueres' provisional capital. So I borrowed a jacket and a pair of hiking shoes and, with a Tropical Radio telegraph operator, lit out over the mountains for Cartago...
Teacher Roy Fisher, 22, just out of the University of South Carolina, was like no teacher Bunk had ever heard of. In his green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
Come Again. In Tokyo, a robber stripped Tadashichiro Tamura of his clothing and money, but accepted a stirrup cup and ultimately staggered out leaving behind his own jacket, his shoes, and the loot...
...since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He said he was a weekly reader of TIME with a habit of clipping stories and depositing them in the pocket of his jacket for easy reference. One such story, from the May 26, 1947 issue, had impr es s e d him so much ("I couldn't get it out of my mind") that he wanted permission to set it to music...