Word: raincoat
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...right before she was set to graduate, she took her general exams in history in Longfellow Hall (now part of the Graduate School of Education), wearing a large raincoat to conceal the fact that the baby was late—she was past her due date...
...Fortunately, the same engineering which brought us the umbrella also brought us something far more useful: the raincoat. For those unfamiliar with it, the raincoat wraps snugly around the wearer’s body, poses no threat to fellow pedestrians, and has the added advantage of thermal insulation. Driving rain poses no threat to the raincoat-clad pedestrian, while the umbrella user vainly struggles to position his or her weapon against the onslaught of the wind. And, if one wishes, the raincoat can be augmented by rain-pants and even gaiters to provide an unassailable guard from the weather?...
...Nicholas B. Snow ’09 look like an unlikely pair to be running together to lead the student body. Willey wears a light-green cable-knit sweater with an orange Ralph Lauren logo matching the orange-pink collared shirt layered carefully underneath. Snow dons a blue raincoat thrown over a plain white T-shirt and jeans...
...Bring a raincoat, or else get soaked by all the tears in Yu Hua's woebegone novel Cries in the Drizzle - originally serialized in a Shanghai literary journal in 1991, but recently published in English for the first time. In this glum and afflicted work, a schoolgirl blubbers when a snowball hits her; an unfaithful husband sobs at his wife's grave; a bride bawls when molested by her father-in-law; and, in the grisliest scene, a son keens into the void after a canine kills and eats his feeble mother...
...prices starting at $6 a yard.) New books--such as Sew Subversive by the founders of Stitch Lounge in San Francisco and the upcoming S.E.W.: Sew Everything Workshop by Diana Rupp, due out next year--give step-by-step instructions for all kinds of projects, from making a raincoat for your poodle to transforming a pillowcase into a sundress. And while some women are starting with the basics, cutting from patterns or stitching a seam, others are reinventing the craft by altering their old clothing for a custom look...