Word: raincoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy fighting around the Chang-Jin reservoir in northeast Korea, Bob had been slightly wounded by gunfire and had lain in a gutter for three days,' covered only by a raincoat. "There was a medic there,'' he said, "but every time I started to call him, I heard someone else call, and I figured they were worse off than me." When Chinese overran the area, Smith played dead, even when some of them stripped him of parts of his clothing. Finally he made his way to a nearby house, where he found other wounded G.I.s...
...them wore gray flannel suits, one wore gray flannel pants and a sport coat, and one wore gray flannel pants and a raincoat. They chose these garments, they said, so they would look as though they belonged in Eliot House. Three of the four smoked pipes...
...what may be his final pilgrimage to Moscow. He said goodbyes to the bigwigs of French Communism: Jacques Duclos, looking like the tubby mayor of a little French town; Andre Marty, his fanatic face wearing an uncommonly benign look; hard-boiled Red Labor Chief Benoit Frachon in a green raincoat...
Burning Bright (by John Steinbeck; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein 2nd) suggests that misused talent can be more distressing than none at all. In this reversible raincoat of a "play-novelette,"* Steinbeck tells of a sterile husband (Kent Smith) with a fierce yearning for parenthood. His wife (Barbara Bel Geddes), out of love for him, conspires to have a child by another man. At first crushed and incensed when he learns the truth, he is at length comforted with a transcendental sense of being the father not of one child but of all children...
...when an enraged elephant on an English circus train flails about with its trunk in the cab of a nearby locomotive and sends a passenger train off on a wild, wreck-climaxed run. Just before the crash, a U.S. gangster type slips his revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...