Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months now, San José has known few clear days as eruption after eruption dropped an estimated 50,000 tons of ash on the city. Grit covers floors, seeps through windows and gets into food at mealtime. When they go outside, San José's 230,000 citizens wear goggles, gas masks, pull handkerchiefs over their faces like Hollywood bandits, even cover their heads with paper bags...
...rewards for hustling are there for everyone to see in the ornate homes of the wealthy on Malabar and Cumballa hills. Bombay's sleek women, who set India's fashions, wear slacks by day as they whip about the city in sports cars, and are lovely by night in sheer, gold-encrusted saris. The new and old rich frequent the marble-floored Willingdon Sports Club, where vegetarian diners are discreetly noted by chalk marks on the backs of their chairs, and gather on Sundays for horse racing at the Western India Turf Club, where a sign...
Moderation & Macaroni. The Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl...
Athenagoras must often maintain polite diplomatic silence in the face of open hostility from Turkish Moslems. Orthodox clergy, except for the Patriarch himself, are forbidden to wear clerical garb in public. Last week Istanbul papers bitterly attacked Athenagoras for not condemning the Greek Cypriots...
...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...