Word: raincoat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly diminished by either age or illness. He plunged happily into thickets of outstretched hands, ignoring the blazing June sun to deliver elegant little speeches, without notes and without hesitation. Caught in a rainstorm at Beauvais, De Gaulle stood through the Mayor's long speech without hat or raincoat as streams of water ran down his grey suit. Did this mean that De Gaulle would be able to go ahead with his ambitious ten-nation swing through Latin er aides were watching, ready to recommend a drastic cut in the itinerary-or even cancellation-at the slightest sign...
King, or C. B., as his friends call him, does not look or sound like a southern civil rights leader. At Harvard last month he wore a conservative dark suit and a belted khaki raincoat which might have come from Brooks Brothers. When he speaks his voice is deep and grave with no trace of southern accent...
Affair begins, for instance, with a New York drama critic on a summer jaunt to Europe. As if by magic, Paris customs men switch his raincoat for one belonging to another tourist. The critic finds its lining contains ten-count 'em-ten $10,000 bills. To no one's surprise, the critic turns out to be a former foreign correspondent who can order breakfast in at least six foreign languages and-what else?-a onetime OSS man in World War II. In no time at all he is up to his tweed lapels in a fell and fancy...
...when 5,000 veterans of Viscount Montgomery's El Alamein campaign got together in London for a reunion, who better to entertain the troops than the old desert queen herself? Flying in from rainswept Paris, Marlene left reporters gaping as she appeared in a fawn-hued raincoat, tall black boots with giant handbag to match-and a slouch-brimmed sou'wester. Having carried that off, she later headed for the show rehearsal in wrist-to-ankle blue jeans. But no need to fret, chaps. By show time she was in uniform-a clinging, flesh-colored gown, and when...
Domenico (Sandro Panzeri) is natural office fodder. He is shy, willing, anxious to please. He comes from a poor family and all he dares to ask of life is "un posto sicuro"-a steady job. And, if possible, a fancy belted raincoat with a little cap to match. As he enters the big office building, he stares as Alice stared at Wonderland. Doors beyond doors, and behind each of the doors a new life. Trembling, he opens one of them. Sure enough, a job is waiting for him; he is hired as an office boy in the Technical Section...