Word: overcoats
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...chandelier. Inside, the warm pulse of a Cuban orchestra greeted the guests as they were ushered into the tapestried hall, which florists had turned into a bower of blossoming apple trees for the occasion. Last to arrive were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. As he pulled off his overcoat, the black-tied Duke asked if this was a white-tie occasion, then muttered, "Well, it's too damn late to change anyway!" and toddled up the red-carpeted grand staircase...
...messengers came with the news that Gero was talking on the radio. Ferenc Kocsis went with part of the crowd to Radio Budapest, where the AVH were throwing tear-gas grenades. He saw a young boy?"just a little fellow with an open shirt and an old jacket, no overcoat and no hat"?pick up one of the grenades and throw it back. The AVH panicked, and the mob surged forward. Ferenc heard a burst of machine-gun fire. There was a sudden silence and then a roar went up, soft at first, and then like thunder. Says Ferenc...
Road Show. In Miami, when cops questioned Willie Cooper after they found him wearing four shirts, four pairs of pants, a sweater, two denim jackets, an overcoat, gloves and three hats jammed on top of each other, he offered a ready explanation: "I travel quite a bit and don't like suitcases...
...Perhaps I Was a Coward." In the next office, another inspector questioned an aging woman in a shabby black overcoat. She was a spinster, a piano teacher. How and why had she fled to Austria? Her answer was confused: she had never been mistreated; she had simply been afraid. The inspector looked at her thoughtfully. Down went his stamp...
...when the Russians had already begun to attack Budapest, Premier Nagy advised Mindszenty to take refuge in the U.S. embassy. Rolling up his cassock under his overcoat so that he would not be recognized, Mindszenty made his way there, past Russian soldiers. Says Mindszenty in retrospect: "I have no enemies, and want only to live in peace with the world. I do not hate Russians. We want only to get rid of Communism because it is wrong and denies...