In autumn, she prefers rich colors, such as deep plums or emeralds, and a larger handbag, which can balance out the bulk of a heavy coat and offer room for a hat, scarves and gloves.

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While the sensors can cope with shirts and even jumpers, a heavy winter coat would be too much for them to get past.

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He was wearing a heavy winter coat in his house.

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Among the possibilities: Have astronauts wear a deployable shield resembling a heavy winter coat or have them hunker down in a storm shelter aboard the spacecraft during periods of high solar activity.

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Frank was the only one of our group to have taken a hog that evening, and so it was his boar that was winched up on the gambrels (imagine a heavy steel coat hanger with hooked ends, suspended from an iron frame by steel cable), the animal's hind legs at eye level.

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In Maryland, Michael Pugh donned a wool coat, knit cap, waterproof pants and heavy boots to trudge more than a mile through four inches of wet snow to his bank in downtown Hagerstown, about 70 miles west of Baltimore.

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