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Word: raincoat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendly neighborhood bookstore, right there beside Youngblood Haivke and The New English Bible. The terrible Mary McCarthy has spoken of Burroughs with respect, and the Saturday Review's John Ciardi has praised his "profoundly meaningful" search for "values." British Writer Kenneth Allsop called him "Rimbaud in a raincoat." The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of the YADS | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...That's all right," she replied cheerily, cheerily as she could after being awakened by the phone. "I'll wear my boots and raincoat. I really love football, I'm really gung...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: My Date: Rain And A Gung-ho Girl | 11/5/1962 | See Source »

Susan was almost ready when I arrived. She put on a heavy wool cardigan. "At least she'll be warm," I thought. Then a raincoat. "At least she'll be dry," I thought. Over that she put on a poncho. "She'll be shapeless," I thought. She put on loafers, a scarf, and a rain-hat. I twisted uneasily in my deceptively thin trenchooat...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: My Date: Rain And A Gung-ho Girl | 11/5/1962 | See Source »

...rakishly enough or designed with sufficient casualness to insure its owner protection against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries Harper's Bazaar. For if simply everyone has a plain old mink coat, hardly anyone has a mink-lined raincoat. Or a mink coat modeled after an officer's reefer ($7,800, Bonwit Teller). Or a pure-white double-breasted mink blouse ($2,600, Bonwit Teller). Or a dark ranch mink suit ($2,000, Fredrica Furs). Or a loose-belted polo coat ($4,950, Hattie Carnegie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: After Mink, What? | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...five encores, the band signed off with its theme song, Let's Dance. The audience continued to clap rhythmically, and Goodman led his weary men back onstage for another 15 minutes of encores. Even then, the audience would not leave until Goodman appeared again onstage in hat and raincoat and acknowledged the ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rhapsody in Russia | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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