Word: overcoat
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...really exists. A fund at the College for an undergraduate who cannot afford an overcoat...
...seems that President Eliot noticed a student without an overcoat wandering around the Yard on a wintery day in the 1890's. The warm-hearted man that he was, Eliot gave him his coat. When the young man came of age, he in turn provided an overcoat for a needy undergraduate and established the Thayer trans mutendum Fund...
...State Department's Latin American expert, Adolf Berle Jr., and White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to fly to Miami to confer with anti-Castro Cuban invasion leaders. Black coffee was being rushed about. Berle (since eased out of his State Department office) stood around in an overcoat complaining of the cold. Schlesinger was haggard and unshaven. Finally, Berle and Schlesinger left, and so did most others of the White House coterie. Abruptly, President Kennedy walked out into the White House Rose Garden. For 45 minutes he stayed alone, thinking...
...they have been there ever since. The 40 tenors sing in six languages, and generally bleat, screech, bawl and scream in a manner calculated to make any listener sympathize with Rossini's request that a visiting tenor "check his high C with his overcoat...
Encephalitis (arborvirus-caused brain inflammation, more prevalent in Asia and Europe than in U.S.). Vaccines to date have been unsatisfactory or actually dangerous for man. Work is in progress on virus found in Malayan rodents in hopes that its protein overcoat will prove to be of a basic pattern that will trigger formation of antibodies against several close-kin viruses...