Word: jacketful
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...back. No shrimp cocktails this week. We were going to bring the convertible but it was too cold. Bob, however, had no complaints about the gathering. Want to know the secret of a good tailgate?, he asked. Without waiting for an answer, the former football star reached inside his jacket and pull out a flask. Sterling silver, he replied with a grin...
...short, white man wearing a dark jacket and cap approached two graduate students from behind and demanded their wallets...
...Office of Career Services (OCS) website counsels women “to wear a fairly conservative suit in a fairly conservative color.” However, in person OCS advisors (read: translators) explain that if a woman wants to play it safe, fairly conservative must be defined as a jacket and skirt. The interview-prep site WetFeet.com is more explicit, advising that “a skirt suit is de rigeur, and anything other than non-textured nude hose and heels is pushing the envelope of what’s acceptable.” No need to stop by Hootenanny...
...crimson wool jacket and a black necktie with little drums on it. I know all the words to the Harvard fight songs. Most people at this school can’t sing more than two lines of any Harvard song and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a crimson wool anything. Owners of the jacket are generally members of the Harvard University Band (although once, while crashing the Screw Your Roommate Dance, I encountered a non-member wearing one in an attempt at “semi-formal...
...Supplies are a major problem. Sitting in a shell-pocked command post with a panoramic view of the Kapisa front lines, Mahmad Zahir, a platoon commander with 21 years of combat experience, pulls out three Kalashnikov rifle magazines from the webbing under his jacket and lays them on the floor for inspection. Two of the three are empty. "We're short of ammunition?for tanks, artillery, machine guns, rifles. It's already cold, but we don't have enough blankets, and we have no winter uniforms," says the bearded, sunken-cheeked veteran. "If the Americans hit the Taliban...