Word: raincoated
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...half an hour, exchanged only a how-do-you-do and a goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen paid a visit to the U.S. Air Forces and it began to shower, quiet, grizzled Spaatz wrapped his raincoat around Her Majesty. Another man might have preserved the coat as a relic. Spaatz wears it all the time. It is as torn and stained as his old pancake cap with the ripped-out lining...
...rupees-For tropical shorts, shirts, and a monsoon raincoat. This island is only 8 degrees from the equator. The day I landed I almost passed out in my winter army uniform...
...ersatz materials are often better than the products they replace. Samples exhibited at Chicago's National Chemical Exposition: an Army raincoat that weighs 1½ Ib. less than the old model, saves 1¾ Ib. of rubber; plastic buttons for uniforms; synthetic bristles, tetered like natural hog hairs, for paintbrushes...
Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...
Lecture notes, textbooks, fountain pens and other implements of learning make up the bulk of the daily collections together with the usual quota of raincoat's and jackets...