Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of the slums" of Calcutta, arrived to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At her request, the Nobel committee eschewed the traditional banquet after the presentation and donated the $7,000 that the dinner for 135 would have cost to her Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity, who will use the money...
...wring inflation out of the system. As the recession deepens, Okun would prefer that the Fed ease off and promote some expansion of money supply, which has been fairly tight over the last six months. Warns Okun: "Keeping to that policy in a recession is like wearing an overcoat in summer...
...woman bus driver. Undaunted, he pointed out: "We've had plenty of Congressmen who ended up in jail. What's wrong with one who started in jail?" The voters thought otherwise. On election night, Perkins consoled himself by showing up, unshaven and wearing his stained wool overcoat, at a Democratic victory celebration. The reason: free beer...
...Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley. Barrett, as senior American military officer, approached, looked the general up and down, offered the observation, "General, it looks as if you have...
...opening scene to Last Tango is just great. Marlon Brando, standing under the elevated platform, wearing a brown overcoat, is yelling at the top of his lungs as the subway passes overhead, drowning out his cries. Boston, unfortunately, does not really have an elevated, except for the small part of the Orange Line which passes over Washington St., but if you try, you can gain some sense of satisfaction for your Cambridge-weary blood. No, you may not be Marlon Brando, or even Maria Schneider, but if you want to get away from Cambridge, your best bet is to take...