Word: sweatered
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...find out that they will have to wear it this year. All along, stores, houses, schools, etc., have been kept far too warm in the winter for anyone to wear wool without being miserably uncomfortable; yet in the summer a person cannot enter a public place without donning a sweater to keep from turning blue...
Boudin's appearance certainly doesn't overwhelm anybody. He's on the small side, and heavy bags under his eyes make him look tired. His gray-white hair, once blond, is short but disheveled, and his simple sports coat and sweater are more the dress of a recluse academic than a senior law partner with a 10-room office in downtown New York...
...summer, you can't see the snow-capped peaks of the volcanoes unless it's early morning, for then the sky is not yet preparing its afternoon torrent. So it's best not to arrive after noon, unless you're wearing a sweater or two and a raincoat, and boots for the thick mud that dries to dust again over night. If you arrive in August, the pink and white plastic streamers from the July first saint's day fiesta still flicker against the sky above the hard, dusty, goat-trodden roads...
...Wallace if he ran for governor. And rumors held that he could walk on water. (Dime stores still sell huge posters of Bryant walking across an endless sea. The picture shows him from the back, but you can tell it's the Bear by the trademark tweed hat, sloppy sweater, and a certain down-home...
...soon became clear that the role of trip's jester had fallen to Sisco. His bombastic humor-not to mention the shaggy old yellow golf sweater he invariably wore aloft-made him a natural for the part. His first big moment occurred as the plane was landing at Rabat, when a large Xerox copier suddenly broke loose and slid toward him. The machine stopped short of crashing into the horrified Assistant Secretary, but not before someone yelled: "Oh, my God, stop it! We can't have more than one Joe Sisco on this trip...