Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...store, three worn couches, a board placed on milk cases, and a few wooden chairs make a circle around a Buckeye 135 wood stove. The room is filled with people. The walls are lined with canned goods and staples like salt, sugar, cornmeal and motor oil. A blue denim jacket hangs from one shelf, and a few feet below it hangs a new white T shirt with green lettering that proclaims NOT BY A DAM SITE. A middle-aged woman with a hesitant voice and bright blue eyes is speaking: "I'm sure there are Indian graves around here...
...evidence when the teetotaling Muslims reached the second floor, embassy staffers drank the beer. "Happy Valentine Day," someone quipped. But the joking could not disguise the fear they all felt when the guerrillas marched into their refuge. "Everybody get down," ordered a guerrilla wearing a camouflage jacket and blue work pants. "I thought we were going to die for sure," said Los Angeles Times Correspondent Kenneth Freed, who was among the captives...
...some two and one-half hours. As a stage presence he has many gifts: a well-controlled and expressive singing voice, grace as a dancer, and the knack of an accomplished professional. He knows when to smile, when to chat with the audience, when to casually sling his jacket over his shoulder--and all this helps. But above all, he knows how to make you feel he actually believes his message; perhaps, and this would be a rarity, he actually does...
Small wonder, then, that a lithe, black-bearded man is nimbly dashing among three octagonally shaped enclosures, known as pits, where the trading takes place. Ray Cahnman, 34, is resplendent in a jacket that is Kelly green, the identifying color of a clearinghouse that guarantees his credit. Suddenly he spots the man who is bobbing up and down in the crush like a crazed jack-in-the-box and still screaming "Even 17 D's!" Raymond Elbin, wearing the apple red coat of another clearinghouse, is offering to buy 17 $100,000 Treasury bonds next December...
...silhouette of a naked Aborigine who appears in the rain outside his window--a startling image of man's primitive past. Even stranger is a dream he has in which one of the missing defendants in the trial appears in his living room, a savage in a leather jacket, holding a ceremonial carved stone while a low grunting sound emanates from the floor...