Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vices of Tokyo have been toned down for the Games. Lady Diet members pushed through a law requiring the masseuses in Tokyo's "hotsie bath" emporiums to wear robes instead of bikinis, and the police have enacted a midnight curfew that has already gone into effect...
...their glasses off," he explains. Others extol the half eye's compactness in the pocket, its lightness on the nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...
...Your article about Mods and Rockers [Aug. 14] could cause a false impression. We do not allow any unusual form of dress such as Rockers wear, and we only allow people with ties, etc. The standard of Mecca Ballrooms and standard of dress required is known to all the press, as shown by the enclosed cartoon from Punch...
Dealer in Everything. Lady Bird* was born in a lonely antebellum brick house near Karnack, Texas, on Dec. 22, 1912. Her mother, Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor, a tall, eccentric woman from an old and aristocratic Alabama family, liked to wear long white dresses and heavy veils. She fussed over food fads, played grand opera endlessly on the phonograph, loved to read the classics aloud to tiny Lady Bird. She scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism. Naturally, most folks thought Minnie...
...reach this figure, Barclays panned for gold statistics as far back as 1493, when Columbus returned with his first haul of New World treasure. The total includes all the known gold output since then-ignoring loss from wear, which is presumed to be slight-and an educated guess about recent but unreported Russian production. Despite the widespread departure from the gold standard during the early 1930s, demand for gold keeps climbing, and so does output. Last year the world's gold production reached 39.2 million oz., excluding Russia, compared with 24.2 million oz. a decade ago. South Africa alone...