Word: shod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual festival of music and drama. As the tale of Sir William Wallace's† wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters in a ragged rendition of Scotland's own unofficial national anthem...
...happened to British women. Softly, silently, in the beneficent climate of Britain's postwar affluence, they have burst forth into startling bloom. The transformation should end, hopefully forever, the long winter of discontent when British women stood armored in well-tailored tweeds and wool stockings, their feet sensibly shod against all weather. Only touch of blight: the slowness of British males to notice the change. Snapped one young belle: "It's a pity that the improvement needs to be drawn to their attention through the columns of the Times...
...late Nevil Shute took characters of clay and left them shod with steel. Keith Stewart, hero of Shute's posthumous novel, Trustee from the Toolroom, is unassuming to the point of extinction. Keith is past his prime, hard up, pastily pale and running a little to fat. In an ugly mortgaged home in the London suburb of West Baling, he shares teatime monosyllables with his dumpily comfortable wife Katie. Yet Keith is not a nonentity...