Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...
Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Since World War II, Doggett competitors have not been considered professionals, hence are eligible for the Diamond Sculls at Henley. Would Collins try? He was making no promises. But wasn't the wearer of Doggett's coat and badge the best oarsman in England...
...that was awarded him in absentia in 1953, for he had been unable to pick it up in person. The chief reason: for three years, until last October, Wyszynski was a prisoner of the Communists. A cardinal's hat is red to symbolize its wearer's willingness to defend the faith "even unto the shedding of his blood.'' But Wyszynski's greatness lies in his prevention of bloodshed...
...Continentalism, however, is sun glasses. These are lifted right from the French and Italian Rivieras and from the left bank, and give a dashing and alien air to one's whole appearance. What is so foolish is that they are worn indoors; and while most may think the wearer suffers from dilation of the pupils, he himself has transformed his table in the Waldorf to a little wrought iron one in some sidewalk cafe, where he sits reading a foreign language newspaper. Dark glasses are a little farther than most care to go, though...