Word: raincoated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the trenchcoat model, but a variety of raincoats of Egyptian imported (via Britain) cotton are available to the well-dressed man this year. (Macintosh is the brand name to remember). This is of particular interest to the warm-blooded college man who tends to wear his raincoat for a year-round coat...
...Experimenter in Holland will learn to ride a bicycle, if he doesn't know how, and will come to consider a 10-mile bike ride a short sprint. He will discover that the raincoat, and not wooden shoes, is the most essential article in the Dutch national costume...
Slipping on a tan raincoat and battered fedora, Pittsburgh's Mayor David Leo Lawrence last week climbed into a borrowed Oldsmobile, drove through the steel city's uncertain October weather to campaign for reelection. Like the shrewd old political boss that he is, "King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free...
...columnists and Congressmen who screamed injustice last spring, when U.S. Soldier William S. Girard was turned over to Japanese courts, had reckoned without Judge Yuzo Kawachi of the Maebashi District Court. As the Girard trial went into its third week, Judge Kawachi donned raincoat and rubbers and a peasant's wide-brimmed straw hat, took the court sloshing through mud and drenching rain to the hilltop of the U.S. Army firing range where Girard shot a Japanese woman in the back and killed her while she was scavenging for scrap metal (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Meticulously the judge...
...Once, I remember, I was talking to a very large crowd in front of the big department store in Red Square. Suddenly it began to rain. I could see the crowd wanted me to keep talking. Two Red Army soldiers standing in the crowd were the only ones with raincoats. Someone said something to one of them, and he took off his raincoat and gave it to me. People asked if I would mind talking in the rain...