Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian sailors are now equipped with a new life jacket which covers the lower part of the trunk and gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that...
...days, with four years of study and gaiety ahead of them; now few expect to pass their Freshman year. And if the method of entrance into Father's bond business was ever the most serious problem of the future, it's been replaced. Right now, the problem every Crimson wearer is thinking of and bulling about is where he'll be in a few months, what branch of the service he'll be in, and "when...
...farm bloc, Prentiss Brown will get along with Congress far better than Leon Henderson. He is quiet, unobtrusive, unspectacular. He has a politico's respect for sore toes. And on Capitol Hill he is known warmly as an engaging, modest first-termer who arrived in Washington as a wearer of old-fashioned nightshirts, a man whose idea of a good time was to visit Washington's old cemeteries...
Zhukov. Joseph Stalin keeps his chosen advisers close by him. Army General Zhukov, at 45 (or 48, some say) officially a Hero of the Soviet Union, wearer of the Order of Lenin and victor over the Japanese in Mongolia, is First Vice Commissar for Defense and second only to Commissar Joseph Stalin in U.S.S.R. military councils...
...there has been any "Old School Tie" discrimination, at least in the last six or seven years, it has been by one wearer of the tie against another...