Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women's Wear Daily, which is more authoritative about see-throughs than breakthroughs, came up with the farthest-out rumor of all. The blackout, it said, was caused by the test of a super-secret Pentagon weapon called "Fireball," whose object was to draw all available power from New York, divide it into two beams and shoot it into space. "The point at which the two incredibly powerful beams crossed," the paper explained, "would become a mammoth burst of artificial lightning and would presumably destroy any enemy missiles within range...
Anxious to see what Margaret would wear for a really formal occasion, Californians were bidding up to $1,000 apiece for $100 tickets to a Los Angeles charity ball she is scheduled to attend this week...
...them was Nevada National Committeeman Melvin Lundberg, who growled, "If you tie a lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower's label. If, on the contrary, the odd offshoot insists on permanent identification as a new species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton...
...defense of the anti-nudism statute, Tennessee Attorney General George McCanless argued: "The ultimate issue is whether the general assembly may require members of the opposite sex to wear clothing in the presence of each other except where the persons are joined in a family relationship." If the court decides against them, the nudists have an obvious last resort - a strip...
Director John Lithgow wisely did not sacrifice characterization to symbolism. The characters, except for the poet, wear masks which conventionalize them, but the masks are not identical. Lithgow's poet, played by Paul Magloff, was subtle and almost underplayed. He moves as in a trance. His face displays no feeling. His movements are constrained and simple, yet in his duets with the beasts he displays great tenderness. While the poet conveys feeling with only the slightest gestures, the townspeople express motion in exaggerated contortions...