Word: overcoat
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...bull-necked veteran in a heavy black overcoat leaped forward and tried to wrest the rifle from the nearest cop. Another gendarme smashed his rifle butt into the attacker's face. Thousands of throats roared defiance of the police and the Government. Belgium, the European belligerent to recover most rapidly after the war, last week was having a bonus-hungry veterans' riot...
...about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...
Thunderstorm. When Attlee finished his speech, all eyes turned to Churchill, who had been sitting on the Tory front bench wrapped in glowering gloom and a heavy black overcoat. He rose ponderously, demanded the reason for Wavell's replacement...
When the M.P.s were trooping out of the chamber, Attlee deliberately joined Churchill. As the argument grew hot between them, a crowd of M.P.s gathered around. As Churchill, still wrapped in his bulky overcoat, waved his arms up & down, Attlee seemed to shrink in size. They talked earnestly for a few moments, then Churchill's chubby face, still flushed, broke into a smile. The thunderstorm was over and they parted amicably. An M.P. privately explained: "Churchill also had difficulty with Wavell. He didn't give any reason when he fired Wavell from his Middle East command. There...
...arrived in Washington, the General did not seem to have much to say. It was after 9 in the morning when he stepped off the train in his fur-collared tan overcoat, accompanied by his wife, in a grey sport coat and wearing an orchid. He answered the routine questions in a routine way, speaking to 24 newsmen and into a portable microphone. The questioning over, he asked: "Any more questions? If not, I'll give you something." What General George Catlett Marshall then said was indeed something...