Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. In the 900th anniversary year of the Norman invasion, Author Butler memorably measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there (Harold of England) and the man who survived to wear the crown (William the Conqueror...
...wonder if these servicemen who are so quick to accuse the class of '66 of cowardice are being viewed objectively. Unfurling these soldier-patriots from the flag for a minute, I wonder how many enlisted to find adventure, to wear a uniform, to get away from Mom and Dad, to see the world, to become a man, etc., and then were caught when Viet Nam exploded into a major action. So knock off the chauvinism, servicemen. You're not fighting in Viet Nam "so college kids can go to school." You're fighting either because you have...
...thing to wear a button that says WE TRY HARDER; it's another to prove it. When Board Chairman Robert C. Townsend of Avis Rent-A-Car turned up at his office in Garden City, N.Y., one day wearing his company blazer-the kind worn by Avis folks who deal with the public-a bunch of his subordinates started trying harder. They began wearing their own Avis blazers, red or blue, to the office. Soon supervisory personnel in Avis stations all over the world were wearing them. Last week a group of 16 of them posed happily for their...
...Braniff stewardesses in Pucci bloomers. Even those Avis chaps with their blazers and TRY buttons shrink to insignificance when one no longer has to go to work one day in a blue suit, another day in brown. No more agonizing morning quandaries over what tie to wear! Except, of course, for Fidelity's girls. They wear grey skirts with their blazers. No ties...
Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...