Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presence of any armed man in Laos, except for the Laotians, is illegal. Even so, several thousand Thai troops have been operating more or less secretly in Laos for over a year. They have gone unnoticed because of their ethnic similarities to the Laotian people, and because they wear Royal Laotian uniforms. There are also an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese in Laos, and perhaps 1,000 Americans...
...said they wear their hair Afro style. 17% wanted to, but said their commanders refused to let them. One Marine reported that he had been reduced in rank for refusing to get his hair cut closer...
...intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find it impossible to tell these cool, ??, smart people that you're unhappy." he said. By the end of freshman year, he could not speak to his roommates. "I refused to wear wire-rimmed glasses but I became...
...necessarily. Anyone can like the flavor. The style of dress is consistently tasteful. Girls often wear high heels and stockings. Coats with fur collars, small pins and wristwatches, camel's hair anything, gloves, jackets with print linings, and pretty colored sweater sets are common. This style approves highly of boys with vests, pipes, and woolen scarves around their necks and likes to dress up on dates...
...strange looking. Greek shoulderbags are extremely popular, as are ski jackets, black tights. pierced ears, half high heels, scarves around their neck, long unpolished fingernails, rain ponchos, jewelry, and long hair. The most well-dressed of them imitate a European sort of gray-beige expensive simplicity: the sloppy ones wear skipolo shirts and dungarees and can be called (to their probable distain) "hip.". They have generally been to Europe, or hitchhiked across America...