Word: raincoat
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...rainy day when Florence's Mayor Giorgio La Pira was a Deputy in Rome, he characteristically started for the door without umbrella, overcoat, or hat. A fellow Deputy insisted on lending him a raincoat. An hour later, La Pira returned, dripping from head to foot. To the astonished Deputy, he explained: "I came across an old man in the street who was cold . . ." "Yes," stammered the Deputy, "but that was my raincoat." La Pira replied soothingly: "You can buy another, my son, you can buy another...
...grey cotton suit; next came William A. Cowart, 22, of Dalton, Ga., a hulking figure with dirty white pants shoved into high Korean cavalry boots; last was Lewis W. Griggs, 22, of Neches, Texas, a tall, thin, preoccupied youth, carrying the only luggage of the three: a bundled-up raincoat and a pair of brown shoes dangling by their laces...
...recognized the sound of a good pop voice. A record company agreed, and so he looked around for the right song for Priscilla to record profesionally. Six weeks and 120 songs later, the pretty little girl with bands on her teeth recorded a tune called The Man in a Raincoat for Sparton of Canada...
Songstress Wright had done some singing in her high-school choir, but nothing like this. She threw herself into Raincoat like a pro, clipped out one or two phrases with the sting of an Eartha Kitt, brooded most of the time in very womanly tones indeed. The song caught on quickly in Canada and crossed the border (on the Unique label). Last week it was making news as a potential bestseller...
...from a campaign that brought him back with 2,000 fewer votes in his own constituency of Walthamstow West, Labor's Clement Attlee at 72 was a sad figure, his face bereft of its usual suggestion of tart strength, his hands poked disconsolately into the pockets of his raincoat. His own career as party leader was now in jeopardy. This was the first time since 1931 that Labor had failed to add to its popular vote in an election. "Voting is like the waves on the beach," Attlee philosophized to a TIME correspondent. "They come higher and higher...