Word: coats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milwaukee, home of some 7,000 Americans of Hungarian background, another plane brought a cargo of 73, fresh from the perilous escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...
...Pioneers! In Tokyo, a few hours after 77 Japanese antarctic explorers steamed Poleward, each loaded with 700 pieces of equipment, the Maritime Safety Board got a hurry-up call, rushed the Coast Guard out to sea with each man's missing gear: coat hangers...
...Mollet and to India's Prime Minister Nehru; he met with his defense and diplomatic advisers to discuss the whole pattern of developments in Europe. But by 7:30 p.m. the President was engaged in the pursuit that occupied most citizens of the land. Dressed in sports coat and slacks, he sat down to dinner in the living room on the second floor of the White House with Mamie, his son. Major John Eisenhower, and John's wife, Barbara. Their table was placed before the television set so they could watch the early returns. When Presidential News Secretary...
...palace, Mindszenty appeared, a small Hungarian tricolor pinned to his cassock. His ordeal had left his face drawn, and he was more stooped and grey than Hungarians remembered him, but his eyes were bright and alert. Machine-gun-toting young soldiers moved forward and solicitous!) placed a fur-lined coat over his shoulders to guard him from the crisp...
Chart & Report. In the candidate's cabin, not a moment was wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people...