Word: overcoat
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...whom they seldom or never saw, whose name they almost never read in Red Star or Pravda, a man whom they all knew as the Liubimets (the pet, the favorite, the darling, the beloved) of the Red Army. But it was Engineer Sosnovkin, thin and unimpressive in his grey overcoat, who had to tell the men what General Zhukov, the Liubimets, now wanted of them...
...sidekick, Major Joseph B. Phillips, left a Russian dictionary in plain view in his apartment. Most newsmen took the bait. Timesman Frank Kluckholn, guessing that an invasion of Norway and an offensive against the Germans in north Russia was in the offing, outfitted himself with woollies and a heavy overcoat. Apparently all the newsmen had the same idea: all departed (for North Africa) wearing winter uniforms. None took shorts...
Seventy-five per cent of all the lost articles find their way back to their owners, even after the possessors in some cases had not seen their belongings in years. Last June, an Eliot House Senior was called into the office to reclaim an overcoat. At first protesting that no coat of his was missing, he turned to an expression of surprise as he identified a black coat that he had lost in the Union in his Freshman years, and which had just found its way into the Lost and Found office...
They had needed a few dollars, so they had hocked Eli's overcoat. When the actual murder was committed, Uncle Murray was somewhere else, he said, but he put the finger on Eli and Cullen. "Eli felt a little sick," said dirty Uncle Murray...
...transatlantic flying boat taxied to a mooring in Miami, and out stepped a brisk welterweight with a carved-coconut face, Britain's fabulous Lord Beaverbrook. Scrunched into a black overcoat, he emplaned for Washington. There he dined with the President...