Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squeaky version of Happy Birthday. When he got some icing on his hands, he dutifully followed the directions called out by his wife: "Lick your fingers, Dick." He even got his Irish setter, King Timahoe, to lick off a glob of frosting that had polluted his maroon sports jacket. Pointing at the sullen skies outside, he joked to his aides: "Take the rest of the day off. Go out and enjoy the sun, the swimming...
...finally walked out past the tables where they were selling Donna Fargo albums and booklets with pictures of Donna Fargo in denim jacket and checkered shirt leaning against a tree. I over heard a guy there saying Yes sir that O.B. is mighty fine and let me tell you he knows where...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...
...delegation to the Joint Military Commission was properly outraged. In the most bitter denunciation of the Communist side since the ceasefire, the chief U.S. delegate, Colonel William Tombaught, flung Rees' bloodstained jacket onto the conference table at the next JMC meeting. "The treachery of your act lays bare your utter disregard for human life," he told the Communist delegates and then stormed out of the meeting. A day later, the Viet Cong coolly disclaimed responsibility for Rees' death, insisting that they had never agreed to his search mission...
...come in here with a gray coat?" In recent years, a dark business suit has become acceptable, though the Solicitor General and his male staff members still represent the U.S. in cutaways and striped trousers. As for Deputy Solicitor General Jewel Lafontant, she has designed a cutaway-inspired jacket and striped skirt...