Word: overcoat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team members had trained for two years in guerrilla-warfare tactics, then practiced their assignment for 15 days in a mock-up model of the Blue House erected in their base at Wonsan. Setting out on foot to slip through the snowy DMZ, each of the 31 wore an overcoat, black sneakers and a woollen winter cap and carried 66 lbs. of equipment, including a submachine gun, a pistol, a dagger, eight hand grenades and one antitank grenade...
...black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People are always looking for symbolism in my work," he once said. "There is none. Mystery is the supreme thing...
...regulars. They stand, smoking, laughing, now beginning a game of Kelly or eight ball, now leaving one of the four tables, game unfinished, to join a circle that has appeared suddenly in a corner. All but two or three are dressed rat: pointy, black pants, dark jacket, overcoat with sharp lapels and a shiny finish...
Behind Blitman, a freshman from across the street in a tweed overcoat is talking to his date...
...only Negro head coach of a major professional team would have a hard time staying out of the spotlight-even if he did not stand 6 ft. 10 in., sport a beard, and wear an opera cape instead of an overcoat. The glare is especially bright for Bill Russell, 33, because he is in his first season as player-coach of the Boston Celtics, whose eight straight National Basketball Association championships make them the most successful team in U.S. pro sport. The only change he can make in the Celtics is a change for the worse. So when people...