Word: raincoated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father gave him a book on flowers, but Alfred found a flower that wasn't in the book. That was the beginning of his passionate curiosity about nature. Soon he was immersed in a research project: in shower and thunderstorm he pulled on his raincoat and dashed out to see what the birds were doing. Kinsey's first published work, What Birds Do in the Rain, appeared in a nature journal when he was still in grade school...
...agricultural research center (11,000 acres, 1,000 buildings, 2,000 hired hands) at Beltsville. Md. Guided by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, Dwight Eisenhower inspected greenhouses, orchards, poultry pens, prize-winning cows. ("Of all things on the farm," said the President, "I hated milking most.") Fingering a lightweight raincoat made from corn fibers and fats, he wondered, half in jest and half with his mind on staggering federal butter surpluses, if "we could make a raincoat out of butter...
Undercover Agent. In Dallas, a woman who was arrested after a department-store floorwalker saw her slip two articles under her dress was unburdened of: a sack of candy, two billfolds, a raincoat, a boy's shirt, two brassieres, five pairs of ladies' hose, a jar of deodorant, a tube of toothpaste, two pints of paint, two flower bulbs, four packages of flower and vegetable seeds, three packages of buckshot...
However, we sometimes wonder why we even bother saying all this. For, when the rain does stop and Spring does arrive in Cambridge, the 'Cliffe girl will discard her knee sox and overshoes for short sox and dirty sneakers. The cumbersome raincoat will disappear, and lo!--we will find beneath it the grubby button-down shirt or the over-sized sweater...
...Ford station wagon rolled slowly through the Brussels traffic, drew up in the Marolles quarter. Three men climbed out: a cleric, a middle-aged official and a young man in a brown raincoat. They looked at the miserable shelter of a rags-and-flowers merchant, walked on through one of the more squalid slums of Europe. In one street they met a group of children. "It's the King!" cried a child. "How do you know it's the King?" "It must be. He has such nice shoes." The children shyly touched the young man's raincoat...