Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preventive. In Boston, police found three-year-old Billy McConnell wandering the streets, skipped their usual treatment for lost children after reading the note pinned to his jacket: "Please do not feed. Thank...
...Farewell. Nehru's leave-taking from Bombay was such a scene as only an Eastern country in transition could stage. A harsh afternoon sun beat down on the airfield as the Prime Minister arrived, perspiring in his brown achkan (neck-high jacket) and white salwars (jodhpur-like pants). A small array of dignitaries, students and plain curious citizens waited near the runway...
...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
Writer Henry Grunwald also spent many hours with Lisa. Once, when Lisa was having trouble putting on a jacket in a studio, Grunwald gallantly leaped to help her. The photographer, accustomed to letting models shift for themselves, said somewhat scornfully: "I can see you're new to this business." After two weeks' work on the story, Grunwald was an old hand, and so impressed by the smooth way in which Lisa worked with Photographer Penn that he decided to make it the lead of his story...
...night last week Garry Davis, self-appointed Citizen of the World, rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...