Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tiaras Are Heavy. Amid flashing pictures of Britain's royal family, of table settings for banquets, and of more interiors of Windsor Castle, Rose explained that "King George always signed his name 'George R,' never King George . . . Royalty wears white so they'll stand out . . . When dining with the Queen, the ladies always wear tiaras, but they aren't all they're cracked up to be; they're quite heavy on your head...
...Wardrobe. My clothes Edwardian? I thought that cardigans were rather smart at the moment. I always wear the same suit. When it wears out, I tell my tailors to send me another around...
...heart attack. After Mallinckrodt was made comfortable on the floor to await an ambulance, the President and his company discreetly tiptoed around him and assembled in the Red Room for more talk and a few old school songs. > Got word that his three dogs, Charlie, Pushinka and Clipper, will wear District of Columbia dog licenses Nos. 1, 2 and 3, beginning July 1. Charlie, a Welsh terrier, already carries No. 1, but Pushinka (Khrushchev's gift to Caroline) and Clipper (Old Joe Kennedy's gift) have held tag Nos. 9 and 10. They will move up to replace...
...Army. The pine-forested acres of North Carolina's Fort Bragg provide a rugged training ground and home for the 5,600 men of the Army's Special Forces. These men, who wear distinctive green berets, fashion crude villages of thatched huts, canvas and pine logs in the woods, act out roles as insurgents or villagers battling for control. Defenders whittle branches into spikes, set them upright under leaves to lame invaders. To show the "natives" how to treat wounds, a friendly medic snaps the neck of a rabbit, slits its belly open for a blood-and-guts...
...River Rouge," said Ford. "I didn't know Joe had two brothers still working there." . . . Senator Barry Goldwater's tuxedo had watered silk lapels in a floral design. "One thing about owning a store," explained Goldwater, whose family operates Goldwaters in Phoenix, "you've got to wear the things that don't sell...