Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decline in South Korea's shaky economy. So, said Park, government officials must stop driving cars and learn to commute by bus or bicycle, reduce their liquor intake and cut restaurant side dishes to a maximum of three. In keeping with his austere mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay out of kiseng (geisha) houses. That, declared the proprietress of a big kiseng house in Seoul, was carrying things too far. Said she: "Where else can government officials transact their business...
...opinion makers. The first great fadista was Maria Severa, a gypsy prostitute who sang in a low-life casa do fado in the 1830s. She devoted her 26 dissolute years to bed and bullfights, wine and fado, and her legend is so much with the Portuguese that fadistas still wear black shawls in mourning...
Nixon was, indeed, appearing increasingly available. "I never wear a hat," he said half jokingly to an interviewer, "so it must always be in the ring." Among other top G.O.P. presidential possibilities, Michigan's Governor George Romney received a polite reception from the Young Republicans in Washington, and Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton got a brusque brushoff from Goldwater. Recently Scranton asked Barry to make no attempt to win convention delegates from Pennsylvania. Scranton explained that he wants his state's delegation to go to the San Francisco convention uncommitted. But Goldwater declined to cooperate. Said...
...service was extended to five new cities last fall, a jokester writing in Le Figaro saw it as a step toward the ultimate solution of driving problems in France. By hauling cars everywhere by rail, he pointed out, there would be an end to highway accidents, driver fatigue, and wear and tear on highways. For those who dislike driving in town, the old city streetcar lines could be reactivated to permit the hauling of cars by rail. Best of all, it would also be possible to remove perishable items like tires and batteries, and even motors. "Thus," Le Figaro concluded...
Died. Joe Weatherly, 41, national stock-car racing champion for 1962 and 1963 (last year's earnings: $58,110), a 17-year veteran who was known as "The Clown Prince" for his practical jokes, scorned the shoulder harness 80% of stock-car racing drivers wear, saying "when my time comes, no piece of rag's gonna save me"; of head and chest injuries inflicted when his 1964 Mercury crashed into a retaining wall during a race; at Riverside, Calif...