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  • Toyota's also stepped up marketing here, featuring teenage golf sensation Ryo Ishikawa and child actor Seishiro Kato, as a chirpy, red-jacketed Kodomo Tencho ( "child store manager") praising the virtues of fuel-efficient cars.

    Toyota's Rivals Eat Prius Dust -- Again 2010

  • At first I thought it was silly, this gathering of raucus, red-jacketed folks chanting "ho, ho, ho," and "we love Santa."

    Lorna Sass: EXPRESSING YOUR INNER GREEN SANTA 2009

  • As they sat in the gilt and red Art Deco rooms, served by red-jacketed waiters, Lish told them the history of the landmark restaurant, a place where powerful and famous people came to promote their ideas and celebrate their successes.14

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • The red-jacketed parking attendant offered his hand as she slid from the seat, and Jim came around the front of the car, where fine drops danced in the beams from the headlights.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • We were allowed to interview only those people who lined -- or whom we could coax to -- the edge of our press pen, and even that was iffy A red-jacketed woman official for example stopped wheelchair racer Jack Johnson from talking to me, pushing between us then ordering him away.

    Gail McGowan Mellor: A Rousing, Tightly-Controlled, Poorly Reported Palin Rally in Indiana 2009

  • Inside the revolving doors, he points out red-jacketed guards.

    Back To Basics For Bricks And Mortar 2008

  • Justin Wray staged the opera in what was billed as a "1940s film noir" setting, with Orlando as a red-jacketed commander, Angelica (the "femme fatale") in a fur coat, and Zoroastro, the magician whose job is to get Orlando back on the straight and narrow, as a sort of private eye in a trench coat.

    Rarely Performed Well or at All 2008

  • The result of this is that red-jacketed "security guards" spend all their time going around, ordering paying attendees -- again, people who have travelled to Austin at great personal expense -- to unplug their laptops from the wall or face a $90 fine.

    Boing Boing: March 14, 2004 - March 20, 2004 Archives 2004

  • A red-jacketed Dragoon stood to either side of the door.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • Marching toward them, driving the hurrying guests to either side of the corridor, an action marooning Miss Temple even more obviously in its middle, was a double line of red-jacketed Dragoons in tall black boots, a scowling officer at their head.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

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