Word: raincoat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raincoats Are Enough. Biggest market is Africa, where only a fraction of the population can afford new clothes, and where self-conscious new nations like Ghana are anxious to wipe out traditional tribal nudity. Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes...
...game and drinking off the loss, asked a mounted policeman whether he knew a friend of his from Brooklyn. "He drives a horse, too," he added. The man from Syracuse had tickets for the show, but he wanted to see Kennedy. "All right," a policeman suggested, "you take this raincoat and hat, and I'll take your ticket and see the show." The same cop, when--in one of many false alarms--it appeared that the candidate was finally coming, anounced, "Any bomb-throwers please leave...
...moviegoers last week could choose from a wildly mixed bag of foreign films: Operation Amsterdam (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) is what someone once described as an "on-the-run-in-a-raincoat" film. It is not hard to think of half a dozen British pictures like it that were better. But the film is enjoyable enough, largely because Eva Bartok, a dark-haired girl of great beauty, is generally on view. The time is 1940, just before the Germans swept over Holland, and the caper is to collect all of Amsterdam's industrial diamonds and spirit them...
...typical Eric Ambler reader-a man who, in his own fancy, wears a belted raincoat and knows an automatic from a revolver-places himself in the author's hands as he would commit himself to those of a trusted bartender. He is entirely confident of the craftsman's skill and gratefully aware that such competence is increasingly rare. The latest Ambler amble (his first in four years) is less umbrous than such cloak-and-Luger exercises as A Coffin for Dimitrios and The Schirmer Inheritance, but it should be no disappointment...
...absence on a business trip to Sweden, police searched his house and office, impounded two pistols, an exotic Moroccan dagger, Jaccoud's bicycle and clothing. The police laboratory reported that there were traces of blood and human liver on the dagger, and tiny bloodstains on Jaccoud's raincoat and on his bicycle. Furthermore, a button was missing from his raincoat, and a similar button was found just outside the house...