Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Placid's big 65-meter hill an artificial coat of powdered ice-and one jumper broke an arm practicing on the makeshift footing. When the snow finally fell, it was like manna to Norway's prize crew of jumpers...
...went to a coat closet, got her father's .38-caliber revolver and drove to a woods. There she experimentally fired one shot, then, with the gun wrapped up in a jacket, drove to the hospital...
...snow-white Gandhi caps of Congressmen, and the flaming turbans and fezzes of princes in the marble rotunda. On the great throne where viceroys once sat, perched birdlike Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, retiring Governor General of the Dominion. Beside him on a smaller throne was the President-elect, in black achkan (coat) and tight white churidar (trousers). Prasad's timid wife Rajbanshi sat near by, looking bewildered and frightened...
Such names had made the full descent to lower case; others had been borrowed intact, capitals and all. Prime Minister Gladstone, a busy traveler in his day, became a traveling bag. Prince 'Albert became a watch chain, a long coat and, among Australian beggars, a toe-rag worn in place of socks...
...years. It began next the skin with "a nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped by a linen rochet and a stiffly starched barbette of cambric . . ." Discarding this medieval costume, Monica donned the fashions of the '403, beginning with "an airy nothing" and an uplift bra. "Frankly, I was appalled...